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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 25 September 2013 19 Dhul-qa’da 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5833 Price: QR2 GCC discusses Neymar standardising scores as petroleum prices Barcelona win Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Sheikha Moza Arab Spring facing problems: Emir establishes Sheikh Tamim addresses UN General Assembly umbrella DOHA: The Arab Spring rev- been easy to go through it without at the international level through olutions are now facing dif- patience and determination. its balanced economic and politi- body for NGOs ficulties but things will not “Rarely have there been revo- cal relations at the bilateral and DOHA: H H Sheikha Moza revert in the Arab world since lutions that have not been fol- multilateral levels. bint Nasser yesterday issued a the people have become more lowed by desperate attempts by “Qatar aims to be a hub for decision establishing the Qatar aware of their rights, the Emir the former regimes to abort them. dialogue and discussion among Foundation for Social Action, a H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad That is why wise people prefer different parties to conflicts and supervisory body for civil soci- Al Thani said yesterday. all the time that regime change not to be a party in these conflicts. ety organisations in the country. Addressing the 68th session of should be through gradual reform We aim also to open windows for This is the first time all the the UN General Assembly, the and not through revolutions that cultural and information dialogue different non-governmental Emir said that Qatar aimed to also entail the possibility of coun- between peoples,” said the Emir. organisations working in different become a hub for dialogue and ter-revolutions. There are cases The process of reform and sectors have been brought under not a party in the regional and in our region and in other regions modernity initiated by Qatar, an umbrella body. international conflicts. of the world, which we know very which has made it a state of The new foundation will “The Arab Spring revolutions well, where there was no way for institutions, is interacting posi- function under a joint board of during which the Arab people change through reform,” said the tively with the international directors, as a supervisory and have risen up calling for freedom, Emir. community. monitoring body over the fol- dignity and social justice, are now He cautioned against jumping “It was not possible to achieve lowing institutions and centres: facing difficulties that seem to be to hasty conclusions about the it without a genuine commitment Qatar Foundation for the Care of trying to go back in time. In fact future of the Arab revolutions. in applying the rule of law and Orphans , Qatar Foundation for these difficulties were expected, “This is a historical necessity. It principles of governance, com- the Care of the Elderly, Al Owain but what is strange is that some is clear that things will not revert bating corruption and protect- Social Rehabilitation Center, politicians do not succeed in in the Arab world and that the ing human rights and the basic Qatar Foundation for protection avoiding even expected problems,” Arab peoples have become more freedoms, as well as the empow- of Women and Children, Qatar said the Emir. aware of their rights and more erment of women to participate Foundation for Combating human The transformation to a just involved in the public domain,” in the public life on equal steps trafficking, Shafallah Center for rule and meeting the demands of said the Emir. with men and creating a healthy Children with Special Needs , the people in all states of the world He said Qatar always had opted environment for children,” said The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani addressing the 68th Family Consulting Center and have never been an easy path but to become an active and effective the Emir. THE PENINSULA session of the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday. the Social Development Center. one full of sacrifices. It has not party taking a constructive role Continued on page 3 “This decision will have a great impact on strengthening the civil society organisations in Qatar and promoting their role in social action,” Qatar News Agency said yesterday. 46 killed in Several Qatari experts and rep- Obama tells UN to get tough with Syria resentatives of civil society groups have hailed the new decision say- Pakistan UNITED NATIONS: US leaders’ debate by calling on But Russia remains strongly of mass destruction.“The United ing it will enable these organiza- President Barack Obama outside powers not to fuel the opposed to allowing the Security States of America is prepared tions to work more effectively and demanded yesterday the United conflict, but Obama warned he Council to bolster such a reso- to use all elements of our power, in a coordinated manner. earthquake Nations take tough action remains ready to use force in lution by permitting member including military force, to secure “This decision has come at the against Syria, as Russia wran- Syria and the wider Middle East. states to use sanctions or force these core interests in the region,” right time. This will help reduce QUETTA: A huge earthquake gled with the West over how The annual summit of world to enforce the deal. he told world leaders. And he expenses through a unified human hit southwest Pakistan yes- to strip Bashar Al Assad of his powers came as Moscow signalled In his own UN speech, Obama insisted that the world’s cred- resources department and joint terday, killing at least 46 peo- chemical arsenal. it may allow a US-Russian plan to warned the United States was ibility was at stake after Assad’s financing,” Mubarak Al Khulaifi, ple, toppling scores of homes UN Secretary General Ban collect and destroy Assad’s poi- ready to defend its interests in alleged use of chemical weapons director of the Qatar Foundation and sending people around the Ki-moon opened the United son gas arsenal to be enshrined the Middle East, by ensuring oil on his own people. AFP for Care of the Elderly told region rushing into the streets Nations General Assembly in international law. supplies and eradicating weapons See also page 7 Al Sharq. THE PENINSULA in panic. The 7.7-magnitude quake — which sparked warnings of heavy casualties from seismologists — Kenya siege over was centred in Balochistan prov- ince’s Awaran district but was GCC slams FIFA’s use of felt as far afield as New Delhi and Dubai. Officials said the quake, which struck at 4.29pm (1129 GMT), ‘Persian Gulf’ on website demolished dozens of houses in Awaran, 350 kilometres DOHA: The six member states of the that the federation was ‘disappointed by southwest of the Balochistan Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) plan to the mistake’ made by FIFA, and that offi- provincial capital Quetta. Its epi- launch an official complaint with FIFA cial measures will be taken to address the centre was 20 kilometres below for categorising them under the ‘Persian issue. “We are disappointed by this mistake. ground. Gulf’ instead of the ‘Arabian Gulf’ on its It should not be repeated. We are going to The area is sparsely populated website. prepare a strong case and provide them and most buildings are mud-built. According to the Saudi daily Okaz, FIFA correct information,” the daily quoted him But the US Geological Survey replaced the ‘Arabian Gulf’ on its website as saying. issued a red alert, warning that to ‘Persian Gulf’ recently, a move that He said that the GCC sports union needs heavy casualties were likely based has received bitter criticism from GCC- quick and coordinated action on the issue. on past data. AFP based sports officials. Some officials said The UAE Football Union will also send a See also page 13 that the latest move was ‘illogical’ and one note of protest to FIFA, asking the gov- that affects the ‘sovereignty of the GCC erning body of world football to restore IHT to be renamed countries’. the original name of ‘Arabian Gulf’. “This The information appears in the ‘country step by FIFA has seen strong reaction information’ section on the FIFA website, from sports officials in the UAE and other from October 15 which describes the neighbouring seas and GCC countries,” Yousuf Al Sarkal, presi- NEW YORK CITY: The oceans around Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, dent of the UAE Football Union, said. He International Herald Tribune Kenya troops take their position at the Westgate Shopping Centre in Nairobi yesterday. The four- Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and said FIFA should only be concerned about will be formally renamed the day bloody siege ended yesterday with five militants killed and 11 suspects arrested. The death Oman as the ‘Persian Gulf’. Ali Al Zahrani football, and that sports and politics should International New York Times on toll in the attack launched by Somalia’s Al Shebaab was 67, the government said yesterday. from the Saudi Football Federation said be kept separate. THE PENINSULA October 15, ushering in a new Report on page 10 era for the 125-year-old news- paper. The New York Times Co., which owns the Paris-based daily, indicated in February the rebranding would take place. But the date was announced Air New Zealand to fly to Antarctica, land on ice runway yesterday by publisher Stephen Dunbar-Johnson. AFP WELLINGTON, NEW scientists to Antarctica. But those much like the airline’s pilots flights, the Air New Zealand for Antarctica New Zealand, said ZEALAND: New Zealand’s flights are typically run by gov- might expect to encounter at an planes could return, in good the landing strip needs to be pre- flagship airline plans to fly ernment or military agencies, or airport like Tokyo.