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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Ukraine, Russia Swiss stun hold last-ditch Ecuador with gas talks last-minute goal Business | 17 Sport | 28 Monday 16 June 2014 • 18 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6098 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar seeks to World Heritage Committee session unify prices of daily items Proposal to cover GCC states DOHA: Qatar has suggested “Violations of consumer rights that the prices of several con- are growing in number so we sumer items of daily use be need closer cooperation among made uniform across the Gulf our GCC states to jointly fight Cooperation Council (GCC) the menace,” said H E Sultan bin countries. Rahsid Al Khater, Undersecretary If accepted, the proposal could at Qatar’s Ministry of Economy mean a reduction in the rates of and Commerce, who presided many of these items since they over the meeting. are costlier in Qatar. Sheikh Jassim bin Jabor Al The list is to be soon posted Thani, head of Qatar’s Consumer The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani speaking at the 38th session of the World Heritage on a GCC website that is being Protection Department was also Committee at Qatar National Convention Centre yesterday. The Prime Minister underscored the country’s keenness to promote heritage because launched with the aim of rais- present. The Department is part it is one of the main pillars of Qatar’s cultural identity. Chairperson of the 38th World Heritage Committee Session, H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint ing consumer awareness in of the Economy Ministry. Hamad Al Thani, who is also Chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority’s Board of Trustees, thanked member-countries of the committee for the region. Qatar’s proposals are to be choosing her to chair the session. See also page 3 The proposed portal would referred to the member-states also display the prices of many for study. commodities and services across Discussions might be held to the region, news items regarding have a common label for all GCC action taken against counterfeit products and ensure that their New stadium design products and replicated brands pricing in the region is uniform. and other such commercial frauds The label would also show ingre- Gulf nations back Qatar to be unveiled in member-states. dients and specifications. Heads and representatives of It has been hinted that GCC DOHA: A new design for one consumer protection departments importers are keen to unite and of the popular 2022 World Cup from GCC states began their rou- build a lobby so they can put pres- stadiums is to be unveiled at an tine meeting here yesterday and sure on overseas exporters to in 2022 World Cup row event open to the public on June approved the proposal to launch ensure quality and reduction in 21. The unveiling will be done at the above website. prices for the benefit of consum- DUBAI: Gulf states rallied “biased media campaign”. Qatar on Saturday defended its Al Dhuhaira Youth Center from Details of the website plans ers in the region. behind Qatar following alle- “The Secretary-General campaign and rejected the cor- 4pm to 9pm. The event would were outlined at the meet by The meeting is also scheduled gations published by Britain’s affirmed the GCC’s ... complete ruption allegations which it said also include entertainment pro- Abdullah bin Juma Al Shibli, from to discuss the pricing and quality Sunday Times newspaper that support in the face of all doubt- were timed to coincide with an grammes and two important the GCC Secretariat-General in of automobile spare parts across a senior Qatari soccer offi- ers and haters and everyone who investigation by FIFA, world soc- personalities discussing their Riyadh. the region and after-sales service cial made payments to win the is attempting to lessen (Qatar’s) cer’s governing body, into the bid- personal success stories. The website will be based in of cars. country’s bid to host the 2022 right to host this historic global ding process for the 2022 World THE PENINSULA Saudi Arabia. It is proposed that to enhance World Cup. sporting event,” the GCC state- Cup and the one before it in Qatar has also proposed that cooperation among consumer Qatar has vehemently denied ment said yesterday. Russia in 2018. the GCC states have a unified rights watchdogs from the GCC the accusations. Qatar won its bid through The GCC statement will pro- Isis killing video consumer protection law so that member-states. The meeting is Secretary-General Abdullatif “honest competition,” he said. vide welcome support for Qatar. violations of consumer rights held four times in a year. Al Zayani of the Gulf Cooperation The World Cup has never been REUTERS stokes sectarian could be fought jointly. THE PENINSULA Council attacked what he called a held in the Middle East before. See also page 27 fury in Iraq BAGHDAD: The abduction of Fire in Industrial Area 2,000 soldiers by the extremist group Isis and the killing of 30 over the weekend has exploded Israeli forces tensions between Iraq’s Sunni and Shia sects. Photographs and videos released by the Sunni militant group, linked to Al Qaeda, show seal off Hebron some of the prisoners being killed, apparently in the desert near JERUSALEM: The Israeli one of the most serious security Tikrit, where they were seized Prime Minister, Benjamin incidents in recent memory. on Tuesday. Some were lying Netanyahu, has accused the Amid the vast manhunt, face down with their hands tied. Islamic militant group Hamas Israeli soldiers have swamped A separate group were forced to of being behind the kidnapping Palestinian villages around sit up while they were taunted by of three teenagers – including Hebron and in effect closed off their captors, one of whom spoke a US citizen – who went miss- the city. Reinforcements of para- Arabic with an accent common to ing nearly three days ago, as troopers were drafted in to make- Tunisia or Algeria. Israeli troops tightened their shift camps circling the city, and The images have stirred out- grip on the southern West observation balloons launched to rage in Baghdad — where the Bank and rounded up scores of help with the search. Shia militant group Asaib Ahl Palestinians. In the village of Beit Einoun, Al Haq has made forays into While Israel extended its drag- Israeli soldiers searched through Sunni areas — and prompted net around Hebron yesterday, a barn yesterday, kicking through reprisals. Two residents of the sealing off most entrances to the the hay in animal pens watched largely Sunni west Baghdad city, Israel and Hamas traded by the owner. neighbourhood of Ghazaliyah say accusations. The Islamist group In another villager’s home, nine locals were abducted by the Firefighting trucks at the site of a blaze that destroyed a warehouse attached to Khalid Cement Industries denied it was behind the kidnap- soldiers searched balconies and group on Saturday. Another two Complex in Industrial Area yesterday. (SALIM MATRAMKOT) ping, despite some members wel- rooms, as a crowd observed from were reportedly killed. Report on page 3 coming it. a distance. “They let 1,500 go on the first The US secretary of state, John “Why are they doing this?” said day,” said Khaled Al Jabouri, a Kerry, condemned the kidnap- a man named Marwan. A youth in tribal leader from Tikrit. ping of the boys, issuing a state- a Real Madrid football shirt, who THE GUARDIAN ment calling for the release of declined to give his name, added: See also page 7 Qatari helps driver, housemaid marry Gil-ad Sha’er, Eyal Yifrach and “Do they think the missing boys Naftali Frankel and apparently are in this neighbourhood? DOHA: A kind-hearted Qatari family went out of would accept Shuma’s proposal. After she agreed, backing Israeli claims of Hamas “They are only here because a its way to help two workers serving the household Al Yefai sought the permission of her parents in involvement. burned-out car [which it has been tie the knot. Their Bangladeshi driver’s crush on Indonesia. After they agreed, the formalities to sol- Amid rapidly rising tensions in suggested was linked to the kid- Today’s the Indonesian maid led him to summon courage emnise the marriage, including the mandatory pre- the West Bank, the Israeli military napping] was found two kilome- and break the news to his sponsor. marriage medical test, began. The marriage contract flooded the Hebron area with sev- tres away. “They are trying to put matches It took the Al Yefai family almost two months was finally endorsed by the Indonesian Embassy. A eral thousand additional troops, pressure on us and put pressure GROUP G: to complete the formalities for marriage, Al Sharq kind Al Yefai, the daily said, gave money to Shuma deployed extra anti-rocket units on the Palestinian government.” GERMANY VS PORTUGAL (7PM) reported yesterday. so that he could pay the dower amount (meher) to in two southern cities and called The search has been accom- On a fine evening, when the sponsor was in his the bride. up several hundred reservists. panied by widespread arrests – GROUP F: majlis (living room), driver Mohamed Shuma told The newly-married couple lives with the Al Yefai The kidnapping and the scale of about 80 Palestinians were seized IRAN VS NIGERIA (10PM) him of his wish to marry Alees. family at a place provided to them at their home. the operation to recover the boys yesterday.
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