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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sheikha Moza at CILE conference Released UN Single motor peacekeepers reach Jordan insurance plan AMMAN: The United Nations welcomed the release yesterday of 21 Filipino peacekeepers, who had been seized by Syrian rebels on the Golan Heights, as they for GCC likely crossed to freedom in Jordan after a three-day ordeal. Philippine authorities also expressed relief at the release Draft may get nod at Doha meet of the members of the UN Disengagement Observer Force. DOHA: Plans to have a uni- from one GCC state to another A Jordanian military offi- fied insurance policy for auto- need to buy third-party insur- cial said the peacekeepers were mobiles in the GCC region are ance cover. This is most common greeted by border guards as they in the pipeline and if things in the case of Saudi Arabia which crossed from Syria in the after- go as planned, regional motor attracts a large number of reli- noon and “underwent medical insurance schemes might be gious visitors from the region who examinations.” launched before the year-end. prefer to travel by road. They then boarded an army bus A preliminary draft of the pro- People travelling to Saudi and were given a military escort posed policy has been framed, and Arabia from Qatar by road for pil- to the east Amman headquarters approved by the Gulf Insurance grimage like Umrah, for example, of the armed forces where they Federation at its meeting in must pay up QR100 as third-party were “handed over to the UN rep- Dubai last month.