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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 8 April 2013 27 Jumada I 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5663 Price: QR2 Doha Bank All eyes on gets nod to list Mutaz at more shares GCC event Business | 20 Sport | 31 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Decks cleared for Qatar’s satellite launch Doha joins UN convention DOHA: The decks are clear markets across the Middle East, for Qatar to execute its ambi- North Africa and beyond. tious Satellite Project ‘Eshail’ The selection of Arianespace to announced early last year, deliver Eshail 1 into orbit marks as the country has joined the a step forward in the EshailSat United Nations Convention programme to invest in and oper- on Registration of Objects ate a high-performance satellite Launched into Outer Space. at 25.5° East, a well-established Eshail is from the Arabic orbital position for television root word ‘Suhayl’ which means broadcast services. Canopus or the bright star Alpha The new satellite will provide in the southern constellation Argo. further Ku-band resources for The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Qatar Satellite Company, television broadcasting and will Affairs H E Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud, Sudanese First Vice-President Ali Osman Mohammad Taha and other dignitaries at the International Donors EshailSat, early last year selected also mark the start of Ka-band Conference for Reconstruction and Development of Darfur, at Ritz-Carlton Hotel, yesterday. Arianespace to launch its first services, opening up new busi- satellite Eshail 1 in the current ness opportunities for EshailSat quarter (April-June) on board an and their customers, according Ariane 5 launcher. to details posted on the website Qatar to help in Darfur rehabilitation The announcement was made at of ictQATAR, the country’s tel- a Satellite 2012 show in Washington ecom sector regulator. The six- DOHA: The Prime Minister displaced people and refugees to any agenda. It did not exclude requires rehabilitation of their early last year. tonne satellite will be launched and Foreign Minister H E their native places was an urgent anyone, did not favour one party original areas by building homes, The Emir, H H Sheikh Hamad from Arianespace’s space port in Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin mission. Sudanese First Vice- at the expense of another and did schools and hospitals so they can bin Khalifa Al Thani, yesterday Kourou, French Guyana, on the Jabor Al Thani yesterday said President Ali Osman Mohammad not distinguish between groups or resume their normal lives,” he said. issued a Decree (No 14 of 2013), east coast of South America. Qatar was implementing a pro- Taha, Qatar’s Deputy Prime movements, the Premier stressed. At the political level, a regional approving Qatar joining the UN Commenting on the selection gramme to facilitate the return Minister and Minister of State for He called on participants to authority has been established in Convention (XXIX) of 1974. The of Arianespace, EshailSat’s CEO of displaced people and refugees Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmad bin allocate adequate spending in Darfur, which has set up its admin- decree will have the status of Ali Ahmed Al Kuwari said, “We to Darfur. Abdullah Al Mahmoud, regional and their programmes for education istrative structures, executive and law, Qatar News Agency (QNA) are delighted that, together with The initial phase of the project international partners for peace in and said increasing awareness and legislative bodies and begun to reports. Eutelsat, we have been able to targets 150,000 people at a cost of Darfur and representatives of donor spread of education would deepen function in coordination with the In 2010, EshailSat inked a select Arianespace to launch our $31m, while the next phase cost- countries and regional and interna- the culture of tolerance and con- central authority in Khartoum contract with Space Systems / first satellite. Eshail 1 is just the ing $529m will help rehabilitate tional organisations attended. firm conviction for peace and the and the governors of Darfur’s five Loral to build Eshail 1 which will start of our mission to provide some two million people in 45 vil- Qatar agreed to head the Arab- futility of wars and conflicts. regions, the Premier added. share a spacecraft platform with high quality, independent satellite lages in five regions of Darfur. African Committee on Darfur “It is a task that needs big At the economic level, the road the European satellite operator services to meet Qatar’s national Inaugurating the International Peace out of its humanitarian and finance as there are tens of thou- network is now being built and Eutelsat. stakeholder’s interests and serve Donors Conference for Recons- ethical responsibilities as well as sands of people in Darfur living agricultural projects has resumed Eshail 1 will provide television, customers throughout the Middle truction and Development of its Arab obligations and Islamic for years in displacement camps after years of stoppage. Internet, corporate, and gov- East and North Africa.” Darfur, at Ritz-Carlton Hotel, values, the Premier said, pointing at home and in refugee camps THE PENINSULA ernment services in expanding THE PENINSULA the Premier said the return of out that it had not been driven by in Chad, and the return of those Continuation on page 6 Lorenzo wins MotoGP Woman fined for assaulting motorist DOHA: An expatriate woman suddenly slowed down since her around her to dissuade her driver was fined QR5,000 by a victim was driving very slowly from attacking the man, but she lower court after it found her as traffic was moving at a snail’s refused to listen. guilty of physically assaulting a pace. The woman kept honking Police arrived and took both male expat motorist. but when the man did not move, to police station. The man filed The court also ordered her she stopped her car, got out in a complaint and the case was licence confiscated and car seized fury, opened his front door and referred to the Prosecution which for two months. began hitting him. filed charges against the woman. She was driving fast and Other motorists gathered THE PENINSULA Egyptian Copts, Ezdan to build 10 residential complexes DOHA: Ezdan Holding Group, a leading real estate develop- Muslims clash ment company in the region, plans to construct 10 new residential complexes, most of them in Al Wakra. The Group CEO of Ezdan again; one dead Holding, Ali Al Obaidli, while speaking to The Peninsula on the side- lines of the company’s annual general meeting, said that the com- CAIRO: One person was pany was set to open its ‘Ezdan Mall’ at Gharafa on Sunday. The killed and 84 were wounded in Group’s audited net profit stood at QR408.7m for the financial year clashes at the Coptic Orthodox ended December 31, 2012. Full report on page 17 Jorge Lorenzo (right) of Spain, winner of MotoGP Commercialbank Grand Prix of Qatar, and runner-up Valentino Cathedral in central Cairo yes- Rossi of Italy celebrate on the podium at Losail International Circuit yesterday. MotoGP rookie Marc Marquez terday after a funeral service QNB nets QR2.1bn profit in first quarter of Honda took a superb third on his debut in the top division. See also page 28 SHAIVAL DALAL for four Egyptian Christians killed in sectarian violence with DOHA: The QNB Group has reported net profits of QR2.1bn for Muslims, state media said. the first quarter (January to March 2013), up 6.7 percent over Q1 of Police fired tear gas to disperse 2012, the Group, announcing its financials for the first three months the crowds but clashes contin- of 2013, said yesterday. Total assets of the group increased by 22.2 ued late into the evening. Fresh percent from March 2012 to QR380bn, the highest ever achieved by Kerry, Abbas discuss reviving peace talks clashes erupted when hundreds of the bank. This was the result of a strong growth rate of 28.7 percent angry Copts came to the funeral in loans and advances to reach QR259bn, while customer deposits RAMALLAH: US Secretary March 20-22 visit and returned path forward,” the US official said service at St. Mark’s Cathedral. increased by 28.2 percent to QR280bn. Full report on page 20 of State John Kerry and alone a day later. in an emailed statement. After an emotional church service, Palestinian President Mahmoud A senior US official described While focusing on economic Christians chanted anti-govern- Car missing after given for valet parking Abbas yesterday discussed the talks, which took place after a issues, the wider talks included ment slogans and started hurling reviving Israeli-Palestinian week marked by clashes between a discussion of “how to create a rocks at police officers outside the DOHA: A GCC national who was here as a tourist lost his car after peace talks but neither side Palestinian youths and Israeli positive climate” for peace talks, cathedral, witnesses said. he handed it for valet parking at a famous hotel where he was stay- offered details on how, when and security forces in the West Bank, said the senior US official. The Some protesters, believed to be ing. When he drove up to the hotel entrance, a man in the uniform whether that might happen. as a constructive meeting but said US official said that Kerry had Copts, smashed six private cars and approached him and took his car for valet parking. Later, when the Kerry, who spoke one-on-one little about substance.