BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 24 GCC experts Dovizioso sets downplay shale the pace threat at Losail Saturday 17 March 2018 | 29 Jumada II I 1439 www.thepeninsula.qa Volume 23 | Number 7468 | 2 Riyals Freedom to roam with Bill Protection! Terms & conditions apply Civil Aviation Authority Qatar informs Chairman holds talks with top ICAO official MONTREAL: Chairman of the UNSC of airspace Qatar Civil Aviation Authority, Abdulla Nasser Turki Al Subaey, met here yesterday with Secretary-General of Interna- violation by UAE tional Civil Aviation Organi- zation, Fang Liu. Al Subaey handed the ICAO Secretary-General a written THE PENINSULA The Permanent message from the Minister of Representative of Transport and Communications DOHA: The State of Qatar has Qatar to the United H E Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, informed the UN Security related to the latest developments Council and the UN Secretary- Nations, H E Sheikha of civil aviation in the region. The General of a latest violation of Alia Ahmed bin Saif two sides then discussed aviation Qatari sovereignty on the part Al Thani, sent a safety in the region, and agreed on QNA of the UAE, reports . message to the UN the importance of increasing effi- The Permanent Represent- ciency in that regard. ative of Qatar to the United Secretary-General The chairman of Qatar Civil Nations, H E Sheikha Alia and to the President Aviation Authority also held sep- Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, said of the UN Security arate meetings with representa- in a message to UN Sec- Council highlighting tives of the African Union, and retary-General Antonio South America to ICAO. They dis- Guterres and to the President the UAE’s continued cussed the latest developments of of the UN Security Council for violation of Qatari Foodies throng Hotel Park civil aviation around the world, this month Ambassador Karel and in the GCC region in particular. sovereignty. A large number of people thronged the Hotel Park yesterday to sample wide-ranging culinary van Oosterom that a military He expressed his appreciation offerings available at 177 food stalls and food trucks at the ninth Qatar International Food Festival transport aircraft CN-35 that during the meeting to the role ICAO belongs to the UAE violated Earlier on March 9, Qatar which runs until March 25. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT /THE PENINSULA has played in maintaining aviation the airspace of Qatar on had informed the United safety and security. March 4 Sunday. Nations Security Council of air- The message described the space violations committed by incident as a severe violation of aircraft of the United Arab international law, highlighting Emirates and Bahrain, the third the UAE’s continued violation such violation (at that time) in Over 120 nations benefit from Doha Declaration programs of Qatari sovereignty could four months. QNA escalate tension in the region In a letter sent the UNSC on Sheikh Ali bin Jassim Al Thani terrorism in full respect for cul- Doha Declaration, namely, and does not take into consid- March 9, Qatari authorities had said that the World Program for tural diversity. enhancing the role of the law eration security and stability, said that a Bahraini military air- PARIS: The State of Qatar has the Implementation of the Doha Sheikh Ali bin Jassim Al- through educational activities to which can have severe conse- craft overflew the exclusive reiterated its commitment to Declaration, including the Edu- Thani said that Qatar has decided prevent crime and achieving quences on the security and sta- economic zone of Qatar on Feb- supporting international coop- cation for All initiative, is among to build on the success achieved justice through addressing cor- bility of the region. ruary 28. The plane was inter- eration in the interest of the outstanding efforts of Qatar by the 13th United Nations Con- ruption in public institutions. He The government of the State cepted by a Qatari fighter jet achieving peace, stability and to combat crime, terrorism, gress on Crime Prevention and said that the largest project in this of Qatar renewed its call on the before it left Qatari airspace, prosperity for humanity, extremism, corruption and other Criminal Justice held in Doha in framework will be launched by UN to take the necessary according to the letter. employing education in the face related crimes, noting that more 2015 by launching an ambitious the United Nations next month measures to preserve interna- On January 14, an Emirati of extremism and terrorism and than 120 countries have so far program to make the Doha Dec- in Vienna as “the integrity of the tional peace and security by military aircraft also overflew assisting countries in imple- benefited from the activities of laration a reality through coop- global judiciary.” putting an end to the UAE’s con- Qatari territorial waters without menting strategies to prevent all this program. eration with the United Nations Soo-Hyang Choi, Director of tinued violations. permission from authorities in forms of cross-border crime. He stressed that the Edu- Office in Vienna on drugs and the Division of Education for The message also added Doha, the letter further stated, This came in a statement cation for Global Citizenship ini- crime. Peace and Sustainable Devel- that while the State of Qatar adding that on February 25, delivered by H E Sheikh Ali bin tiative, which Unesco experts are He reviewed the outcome of opment of Unesco praised continues to exercise restraint another Emirati military aircraft Jassim Al Thani, Ambassador of currently considering in Paris, the 13th United Nations Congress Qatar’s contributions to sup- in the face of such irresponsible approached the Qatari border Qatar to the Republic of Austria should be based on providing on Crime Prevention and porting the projects and activ- and provocative actions, Qatar before changing course after and its Permanent Representative primary and secondary teachers Criminal Justice, held in Doha in ities of the Organization and the condemns any violation of its warnings were issued. to the United Nations Organiza- with mechanisms to support the 2015, which had been adopted progress made in the projects of sovereignty, and that the In another similar letter sent tions in Vienna, in his capacity as principles of human rights, unanimously, in particular the the World Program for the country maintains the right to in January this year, Qatari representative of the Doha World democracy and the rule of law integration of crime prevention Implementation of the Doha respond to any violations, with authorities had informed the Declaration Committee, at the in all areas, particularly in the and social justice on the wider Declaration, funded by the State the message highlighting that UNSC of UAE airspace viola- Consultative Meeting of the prevention of terrorism and United Nations agenda to address of Qatar, and whose programs the country will do whatever is tions, saying they took place in Experts of the United Nations Edu- extremism, with a view to social and economic challenges benefit more than 100 countries, necessary to protect its borders the context of “irresponsible cational, Scientific and Cultural achieving a culture of peace, tol- and strengthening the rule of law. mostly from developing and least and national security in line and provocative” actions by the Organization (Unesco), currently erance and protection from Sheikh Ali bin Jassim Al Thani developed countries, the with the international law. UAE against Qatar. in session in Paris. extremism, violence and reviewed the four pillars of the statement said. Qatar jumps to 32nd place in World Happiness Report Different variables including income, social IRFAN BUKHARI Yemen, Tanzania, South Sudan, The overall rankings of country Venezuela, down 2.2 points on the THE PENINSULA support, healthy life Central African Republic and happiness are based on the pooled 0 to 10 scale. Five of the report’s expectancy at birth, Burundi have been ranked at the results from Gallup World Poll seven chapters deal primarily with DOHA: Gaining three spots in end of the ranking index. surveys from 2015-2017, and show migration. For both domestic and freedom to make life World Happiness Report in one year, In the happiness ranking for both change and stability. There is a international migrants, the report choices, generosity etc. Qatar has been ranked 32nd happiest foreign-born (immigrants), Qatar has new top ranking country, Finland, studies not just the happiness of the are counted for the country in the world in the global been ranked at number 26 out of 156 but the top ten positions are held by migrants and their host communities, happiness ranking released by the countries and the second most hap- the same countries as in the last two but also of those left behind, whether happiness rankings. Sustainable Development Solutions piest country for immigrants in MENA years, although with some swapping in the countryside or in the source Network (SDSN), a global initiative region. The immigrant happiness of places. Four different countries country. The results are generally of the United Nations. rankings are based on the full span of have held top spot in the four most positive. Qatar from 35th position in 2017 Gallup data from 2005 to 2017, suffi- recent reports- Denmark, Swit- The report says that happiness jumped to 32nd place in World cient to have 117 countries with more zerland, Norway and now Finland. can change, and does change, Happiness Report 2018. In 2016, than 100 immigrant respondents. Dif- All the top countries tend to according to the quality of the society Qatar was ranked at the 36th ferent variables including income, have high values for all six of the in which people live. Immigrant hap- position. In the Middle East and social support, healthy life expectancy key variables that have been found piness, like that of the locally born, North Africa (MENA) region, Qatar at birth, freedom to make life choices, to support well-being: income, depends on a range of features of the is the second happiest country.