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Tuesday 3 June 2014 5 Sha’baan 1435 Volume 19 Number 6085 Price: QR2 New projects to push real estate recovery Business | 17 10 49 DAYS TO GO www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Rapid rise in One-way roads air travel in Arab region planned to end DOHA: The civil aviation sec- tor of the Arab region has wit- nessed rapid growth over the last two decades with the air carriers of the region currently traffic jams transporting over 12 percent of global air traffic from just three percent 20 years ago, the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Internal streets to be developed H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani said in his DOHA: Several main roads in meet the requirements of a rising opening address at IATA’s 70th the city may soon be perma- population beyond 2015. Annual General Meeting and nently declared one-way streets In Pearl-Qatar and the Towers World Air Transport Summit with the aim of regulating traf- area of West Bay, residential units yesterday. The Emir, H H Sheikh fic in a smoother way to ensure in the high-end category were in Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, there are no traffic jams. excess, he said. graced the event, which is being This is part of a solution the Al Abdullah was invited to the held for the first time in the GCC authorities have come up with as Advisory Council yesterday to The Emir, H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and the Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah region and third time in the part of a four-year plan to regulate make a presentation on Qatar bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, at the opening session of IATA’s 70th annual general meeting and World Air Transport Arab world, with his presence. traffic and end chaos on Doha’s Master Plan (development plan). Summit at the Ritz-Carlton, Doha, yesterday. THE PENINSULA roads. The plan, incorporated in a See also pages 2 & 3 Massive plans are also afoot to draft law, is with the Advisory develop internal streets within the Council for discussion and review. city to ensure smooth traffic flow. The Council approved the draft This was disclosed by a sen- and sent it back to the State ior official from the Ministry of Cabinet. Municipality and Urban Planning Al Abdullah said some 50 vil- yesterday. lages in the country were being Palestinian unity government sworn in Assistant Undersecretary at the redeveloped by Ashghal for the Ministry, Ali Al Abdullah, told the purpose of decongesting Doha. RAMALLAH: A Palestinian of a national consensus govern- Advisory Council that he agreed More villages will be redeveloped unity government was sworn in ment, we announce the end of with Council members that traf- in future. yesterday after a landmark rec- US to work with new govt a Palestinian division that has fic snarls were a major problem in The installation of basic infra- onciliation deal with the Islamist WASHINGTON: The United States yesterday said it will work greatly damaged our national Doha and hence the Ministry was structure in these villages will be movement Hamas that Israel with the Palestinian unity government and maintain aid. case,” Abbas said. taking the above steps to address completed in two years by Ashghal. plans to boycott but Washington State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Washington “We hail the national consensus the issue. The official said that a livestock said it will work with. believes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has “formed an government, which represents all He said studies conducted by market each was being developed President Mahmoud Abbas, fol- interim technocratic government... that does not include members the Palestinian people,” Hamas his Ministry had confirmed an in the north, south and west of the lowing a ceremony at the Muqataa affiliated with Hamas.” spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said. acute shortage of retail shops and country, but the plans had been presidential compound in the West “With what we know now, we will work with this government,” The new cabinet counts 17 min- affordable housing. delayed. Bank city of Ramallah, hailed “the Psaki said. isters, all of them political inde- The findings have been referred He said government schools end” of a bitter divide between his The United States “will be watching closely to ensure that it pendents. It includes five ministers to the agencies concerned (for being built now were spacious and Fatah movement and rival Hamas, upholds principles” of non-violence and recognition of the state of from Gaza. their attention). covered an area of 30,000 square which rules Gaza. Israel, she warned, while confirming that millions of dollars in US Shortly after the ceremony, He said that a total of 65 studies metres. The idea is to provide Hamas said the new government aid to the PA would continue. Gaza’s Hamas prime minister had been conducted on the real enough space for training for the represented “all Palestinians,” AFP Ismail Haniya and his cabinet estate situation in the country, and Fifa event in 2022. adding it was a “turning point” resigned. some 207 reports had been pre- These schools were earlier built in its relations with Fatah, which Hamas, which has been blacklisted their hand on either a Koran or a Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin pared and forwarded to several over a space of 10,000 square dominates Abbas’s Palestinian by Washington and the European Bible to take the oath of office as Netanyahu convened a security government agencies. metres. The space was later dou- Authority (PA). Union as a “terror organisation”. Abbas stood by. cabinet meeting that threatened As for office space and high-end bled to 20,000 square metres, and The long-awaited new cabinet Standing on a red carpet lined It is the first Palestinian unity new sanctions against the PA. residential units, the official said now it has been trebled. was the product of an internal with Palestinian flags, the new government for seven years. AFP they were surplus and expected to THE PENINSULA agreement between Fatah and ministers filed past, each laying “Today, with the formation See also page 7 Sandstorm in Tehran US plans 30pc Many Qatari students cuts in power plant emissions want parliament WASHINGTON: The United DOHA: Desirous of taking Those surveyed were a random States yesterday proposed part in the political process in sample of 269 students of Qatar ordering cuts of up to 30 per- the country, some 41 percent of University from different faculties, cent in carbon emissions from Qatari university students said including science and humanities. power plants in President in a survey that they strongly A vast majority (77.7 percent) of Barack Obama’s most ambitious back the establishment of a those surveyed were women. action yet on climate change. parliament. Some 63 percent of those inter- Power plants account for some These students believe that peo- viewed said they had a fair idea 40 percent of US emissions of ple should be given more oppor- about Qatar National Vision 2030, carbon dioxide, the most common tunities to actively take part in while 36 percent said they had no greenhouse gas that contributes public affairs. clue what it was all about. to climate change. Cuts are politi- Only a small minority (16 per- Regarding their awareness of cally sensitive as coal, among the cent of those surveyed) said they Qatar’s constitution, 63 percent of dirtiest energy sources, remains didn’t support the idea of hav- the respondents said they didn’t a major US industry. ing a parliament as the state was know about it, while 36 percent The Environmental Protection providing them enough to lead an said they had a fair idea. Agency said that the cuts would honourable life. More than half (54 percent) prevent up to 6,600 premature They said they actually believed the respondents said they believed deaths. A massive sandstorm engulfs the northeastern neighbourhood of Minicity in Iran’s capital Tehran. The sand- that setting up a parliament might that Qatar supported the Arab AFP storm, accompanied by 110 kilometre per hour winds, killed at least four people, plunged the city into dark- have a negative impact. Spring, while 38 percent said that ness, knocked out power supplies, damaged buildings and caused massive disruption. What is interesting, however, is in their view Qatar played a very that more young Qatari men than significant role in resolving the women believe that they should dispute between the Yemen gov- maintain their traditional way of ernment and Huthi Shias. dressing. Some 74 percent of those The majority of men inter- interviewed said they supported Europe faces migrant ‘catastrophe’ viewed (73.7 percent) said they the Arab revolutions because the liked to dress the traditional way toppled regimes were not of any ATHENS/ROME: The United Nations has may be necessary as frontline authorities claim UNHCR’s European director, Vincent because that made them stand benefit to the people. been forced to consider establishing refu- they have been abandoned by Brussels in the Cochetel, told the Guardian: “We would not out from others and helped them A quarter of the respondents, gee holding centres in north Africa and the face of a “colossal humanitarian catastrophe”. be totally against external processing if certain maintain their identity. though, said they didn’t back the Middle East due to the spiralling numbers Hundreds of thousands of people are pre- safeguards were in place: the right to appeal, But only 22 percent of the revolutions because they believed of migrants attempting perilous journeys paring to make treacherous crossings on fair process, the right to remain while appeals women respondents said they that rulers should be obeyed irre- across the Mediterranean in a desperate unseaworthy vessels from the north African take place.” believed it was important to dress spective of their behaviour.