ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Qatargas unveils $1bn gas recovery plan Business | 17 Monday 10 November 2014 • 17 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6245 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir receives message from Bashir GCC meeting Sticker-free postponed DOHA: A meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for- eign ministers scheduled to be held in Doha today to discuss RP system reconciliation and decide the timing of the return of ambas- sadors from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain to Qatar has been postponed, Al Sharq reports quoting a GCC diplo- under trial matic official. The official said that the visit of Kuwaiti Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al ID to be proof of residence permit Sabah to Abu Dhabi, Doha and Bahrain last week has boosted DOHA: A sticker-free resi- trying to expand our online serv- efforts for GCC reconciliation. dency permit (RP) system is ices,” he said in remarks published Meanwhile, Omani Foreign currently under trial to ensure in the latest edition. Once the new Minister Yusuf bin Alawi bin it works faultlessly once it is sticker-less RP system is in place Abdullah said that the diplomatic implemented. The system’s not only the main expatriate affairs row between the GCC member implementation is expected section of RP will become visitor- states was over politically and soon after the trial is over and less but also its various branches, only minor hurdles remain. the higher-ups give their nod. he said. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has received a message from Sudan President Omar Hassan He called on the member coun- Under the new system RP And both, expatriate work- Al Bashir on bilateral relations. The message was handed over by the Darfur Regional Authority Chairman tries to look at the future and not stickers will not be put on expa- ers and their families will ben- the past, adding that differences Dr Al Tijani Al Sisi to the Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al triates’ passports. Identity (ID) efit from the project. ID cards can be solved only through meet- Thani yesterday. cards, either the regular ones or will have more information than ings and dialogues. The Omani chip-enabled with more informa- they carry now. Immigration minister said that the GCC summit tion than they carry now (includ- officials at the airport will sim- scheduled to be held in December ing the address of the holder), ply feed the name of a resident or will be held in Doha. “We should will, though, continue to be issued. alternatively, his or her passport hold the summit on time and at The ID will be physical proof number, and all details will be on Iraq probes IS chief’s ‘death’ the same venue,” he added. of the validity of an expatriate’s the screen on their computers. THE PENINSULA RP, according to the head of The head of the RP sec- BAGHDAD: Iraq is investigat- the country’s forces, deepening (IS) leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi Expatriate Affairs Department tion at the Expatriate Affairs ing whether Islamic State (IS) Washington’s commitment to the was among those present,” said Angry Arabs at the Ministry of Interior. Department, Brigadier Saleh Al chief Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi open-ended war against IS. CENTCOM spokesman Patrick The officials didn’t say how Kuwari, meanwhile, said his sec- was killed in air strikes by A senior Iraqi intelligence Ryder. The US-led strikes late on march in Israel the ID cards will be issued but tion issues 2,500 new RPs and US-led coalition warplanes tar- official said there was no “accu- Friday were a further sign of “the earlier media reports suggested renews another 5,000 daily. geting the group’s leaders. rate information” on whether pressure we continue to place on KFAR KANA, ISRAEL: one of the ideas being toyed by “Our department also receives The death of the elusive Baghdadi was killed but that the ISIL terrorist network,” he Angry Arab-Israeli protesters the authorities was to post it to complaints about missing ID Baghdadi would be a major vic- authorities were investigating. said, using another acronym for took to the streets across the the applicant. Brig Nasser Jabr cards and issues duplicates,” Al tory for the coalition of countries “The information is from the Islamic State group. country yesterday and police Al Attiyah said the idea behind Kuwari told Al Shurta in an inter- carrying out air strikes against IS unofficial sources and was not The aim was to squeeze the raised alert levels nationwide launching the new, sticker-free view. Colonel Mohamed Khalifa and providing assistance to Iraqi confirmed until now, and we are group and ensure it had “increas- amid shock waves over the fatal RP system is to make sure that his Al Sulaiti, head of the visa section, forces fighting to regain large working on that,” the official said. ingly limited freedom to manoeu- shooting of a young Arab-Israeli. department becomes visitor-less. talked about visit visas for family areas of Iraq that the jihadists US Central Command, which vre, communicate and command”. Shops, schools and businesses “We are making efforts to members of expatriates in remarks have overrun. oversees American forces in the “I can’t absolutely confirm were shuttered in Arab towns and make sure that all of our RP work to the police magazine and said The announcement of the Middle East, on Saturday said that Baghdadi has been killed,” villages where a general strike is done by people online through family visit visas are initially issued strikes came after President that coalition aircraft conducted General Nicholas Houghton, the was observed over Saturday’s Metrash 2,” Al Attiyah told the in- for a month and then renewed for Barack Obama unveiled plans a “series of air strikes” against chief of staff of the British armed killing of a 22-year-old in Kfar house police periodical, Al Shurta five months after medical check- to send up to 1,500 more US “a gathering of IS leaders near forces, told BBC television yester- Kana near the northern city of (the Police). “Our department is ups. THE PENINSULA troops to Iraq to advise and train Mosul”. “We cannot confirm if day. AFP Nazareth. AFP First all-woman shopping centre Stateless Kuwaitis offered Comoros citizenship KUWAIT CITY: Tens of thou- Those who accept the offer But a lawmaker Faisal Al them to their home countries and or were born to these migrants. opens in Qatar sands of stateless people in would be given free residence Duwaisan, a member of parlia- not to Comoros,” he said. In the past three years, bidoons Kuwait will be offered citi- permits in Kuwait, in addition ment’s human rights committee, More than 110,000 stateless have held demonstrations to DOHA: The country’s first zenship of the impoverished to a series of incentives like free described the move as “very grave” people were born and raised in demand citizenship and other shopping complex run and man- African nation of Comoros to education and healthcare and the and vowed to file a motion to ques- Kuwait and claim the right to basic rights, and police have dis- aged by women for women was end their decades-old problem, right to employment, Jarrah was tion the prime minister if the gov- citizenship in the Gulf emirate. persed them using force, arresting inaugurated yesterday. the government said yesterday. quoted as saying. ernment implements its decision. The Kuwaiti government, hundreds who are on trial for ille- The complex has 34 outlets The stateless people — known The process would start as He said the announcement which describes them as illegal gal protests and assaulting police. retailing various products, includ- as bidoons — would be granted soon as an embassy for Comoros means the government has been residents, says only 34,000 qualify A Kuwaiti lawmaker in April ing household items, beauty prod- “special applications for Comoros’ is opened in Kuwait in the com- providing false information to for consideration for citizenship. proposed to send stateless peo- ucts, garments and perfumes, economic citizenship,” Kuwait’s ing months. Comoros is an archi- lawmakers suggesting that state- The rest are considered natives ple convicted of breaching pub- among other things. interior ministry assistant under- pelago state located off eastern less people hold nationalities of of other countries who either lic security and protesting to The complex located at Al secretary Major-General Mazen Africa and is a member of the other countries. “If this is true, emigrated to Kuwait after the a camp he suggested should be Shafi Commercial Street, also Al Jarrah told Al Jarida daily. Arab League. the government should deport discovery of oil five decades ago built in the desert. AFP has eateries. The complex and the outlets within are all run and managed by women for women cli- entele. The complex is a brainchild Berlin Wall fall anniversary of Qatari businesswoman, Sohaila 12,000 abandoned cars, Al Hareb, and aims at ensuring the privacy of Qatari women. They can shop for household machinery removed and personal items in privacy. THE PENINSULA DOHA: Some 12,000 aban- asking the owner to remove it. doned cars, equipment If it is not removed within Iran, Russia to sign and machinery have been three days, the car or equip- removed from the streets ment is towed away by the nuclear plants deal and open grounds across the authorities.