ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 26 February 2014 26 Rabial II 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5987 Price: QR2 QInvest posts Dortmund 40pc revenue run riot in increase Petersburg Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets JEM leader New Egypt PM Qatar slams vows to fight ‘terrorism’ CAIRO: Egypt’s military- UN failure installed authorities named a former member of ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak’s ruling party as prime minister yesterday. Ibrahim Mahlab, a former on Syria state-sector construction boss, vowed to fight “terrorism” and bring back tourists as he began FM blames ‘double standards’ work on forming a new cabinet after the surprise resignation on DOHA: The Foreign Minister, from approving a resolution that Monday of prime minister Hazem H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed pushes for a solution in Syria. Al Beblawi. Al Attiyah, yesterday criticised Al Attiyah stressed that the Beblawi’s government had been the international community current membership of the installed in July after the military for its “double standards” on Security Council did not reflect ousted Islamist Mohamed Mursi, the Syrian issue, saying it was the will of the international com- Egypt’s first freely elected and frustrating all efforts to resolve munity. He called for restructur- first civilian president. the crisis. ing of the Security Council by But it resigned in the face of Addressing a conference titled expansion of its membership and mounting criticism of its failure “The Syrian crisis and interna- reconsidering its method of vot- to get to grips with a floundering tional law” at Qatar University, ing to make it more capable of The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met the leader of Sudan’s Justice and Equality Movement, economy and worsening industrial the foreign minister said that the responding to threats to interna- Bakhit Abdul-Karim Abdullah, yesterday. They reviewed issues of mutual concern. unrest. faulty way of decision-making at tional peace and security. Mahlab, who served as hous- the UN Security Council was pre- He said the Security Council ing minister in Beblawi’s cabinet, venting it from pushing for a solu- had violated basic human rights said that interim president Adly tion to the Syrian crisis. by not intervening to end the cri- Mansour had tasked him with He stressed that the deteriora- sis in Syria. forming a new government “in tion of the Syrian crisis and its Al Attiyah called on the inter- Heart drugs to be cheaper three to four days”. implications on the humanitarian national community to apply He promised to work hard to condition and human rights of the international law uniformly to DOHA: Prices of regular medi- about medicines in Qatar being expected to be issued soon. The improve services for Egyptians Syrian people represented the big- achieve peace and stability. cines for cardiovascular and costlier than in some other GCC plan includes a proposal to limit and fight “terrorism”. gest challenge to international law. He added that there was a big- endocrine diseases are likely to countries. the profit margin of dealers and “This will create the conditions “One of the main issues fac- ger responsibility on the United fall in Qatar with the Supreme The GCC states are working on pharmacies to 44 percent. for investment and the return of ing the Syrian crisis is the double Nations in general, particularly Council of Health (SCH) work- a mechanism to standardise prices “Fixing the prices of the two tourism,” he said. standards that the international the General Assembly, to create ing on a plan to fix them. of medicines, but the process of types of medicines will reduce Since Mursi’s overthrow, community deals with, and there- a better humanitarian condition This is in line with a GCC plan reaching agreement on uniform their prices in all private phar- Islamist militants have killed fore comparison is important to for people across the globe. to bring uniformity in prices prices can take more than four macies in Qatar, and this is the several foreign tourists as well explain the aspects of failure cre- UN resolution No. 377 in 1950 of medicines in the member years, according to earlier reports. aim the SCH wants to achieve. as scores of security personnel in ated by these double standards,” empowered the international countries. A GCC committee was set up to This will also prevent the entry attacks that have severely dented said Al Attiyah. community to take necessary “The SCH will start fixing the work out the details. of fake medicines into the country the economically vital tourism Citing statistics, he said that measures collectively to establish wholesale prices of regular medi- There are wide disparities in as well as smuggling of medicines sector. in three years, more than 130,000 peace and stability. cines for heart diseases and endo- the region in prices of medicines, between GCC countries,” said the A limited reshuffle had been people had been killed in Syria and However, the UN has not been crine disorders as in other GCC which are high in Qatar. The move statement. expected to allow army chief Field nine million people were displaced carrying out its duty of maintain- countries. This will reduce the towards uniform prices follows a The Department said that after Marshal Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to as a result of the conflict, and yet ing peace and stability when it prices of these medicines in Qatar decision by GCC health ministries the SCH decision to lift govern- step down as defence minister and there was no solution on the hori- comes to Syria, added the foreign and make them similar or close in 2012 to import medicines jointly ment control over pricing of medi- run for president. zon in Syria. Yet in Ukraine, the minister. to the prices in other GCC coun- through common tenders. cines and liberalise imports, it has But Sisi, who is expected to win international community inter- Al Attiyah said that crimes tries,” Al Sharq quoted a statement The committee has already been conducting regular inspec- the election this spring, will retain vened swiftly to end the crisis as committed by the Syrian regime issued by the Pharmacy and Drug prepared unified prices of some tions at all private pharmacies his post in Mahlab’s cabinet for quickly as possible. amounted to war crimes and the Control Department of the SCH important segments of medicines, to ensure that they abide by the around two weeks until an elec- Another issue, he said, was the perpetrators must be brought as saying. which include those for endocrine declared prices. toral law has been passed, a senior faulty composition of the Security before the International Criminal The comments came in disorders, diabetes, cardio vascu- “We didn’t detect any violations official said. Council and its way of taking deci- Court. response to a report carried by lar diseases and internal diseases. in this regard,” said the statement. AFP sions, which prevents the Council THE PENINSULA the daily recently on complaints A tentative uniform price list is THE PENINSULA See also page 7 Saudi police hurt by gunfire Plan to link services of Gulf interior ministries DOHA: The GCC states are is discussing progress on this He added that great strides had transactions related to services Protocol Telephony) system, pro- RIYADH: Three Saudi secu- working on a project to set up a project, among other issues. been made in implementing the provided by interior ministries viding safe and encrypted commu- rity officers were wounded, one common platform that will link Brigadier Engineer Ali project, and it is expected that the from anywhere in the GCC,” said nication among the departments. critically, by gunfire outside a the services of their ministries Salem Henzab, director of the entire infrastructure will be ready Henzab. The meeting is discussing a police station in a village in the of interior, enabling citizens and Communications Department at by next month. He added that the departments number of issues such as fibre mostly Shia area of Qatif, the residents to access them from Qatar’s Ministry of Interior, said “The current phase, to be fin- concerned had made initial prep- optic connectivity, linking net- government said yesterday. anywhere in the Gulf. in a statement that the project ished by next month, is related arations for the next phase. works used by security agencies in The incident took place on A three-day coordination meet- aimed at building secure infra- to setting up the infrastructure, He said that after the meeting, the GCC countries, and develop- Monday night in Al Awamiyah. ing of communications direc- structure to provide services of and this will be followed by data the communications departments ing a shared vision on LTE com- “While a number of secu- tors of GCC interior ministries, the ministries of interior to GCC transfer, enabling GCC citizens of interior ministries will start munication for security purposes. rity men were in front of the which opened here on Monday, citizens and residents. and residents to complete their implementing an IPT (Internet THE PENINSULA Awamiyah police headquarters discharging their duties, they were exposed to heavy fire by unknown Turkey protest people from a neighbouring farm which wounded three of them, SCH panel to intensify one critically,” the official Saudi Press Agency reported, citing an Interior Ministry spokesman. fight against tobacco It said the authorities were working to identify those DOHA: The Supreme Council of Justice, Ministry of Awqaf responsible. of Health (SCH) will set up a and Islamic Affairs, Ministry of REUTERS team with representatives from Municipality and Urban Planning, different ministries and health Ministry of Environment, Ministry institutions to implement the of Economy and Commerce, national programme to combat Supreme Education Council, smoking and use of tobacco.