Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 28 QRCS operates Qatar’s expected Al Khor stadium emergency mobile fund inflow revised begins to rise clinics in Syria to $1.2bn from the ground The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 • 29 Muharram 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6612 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir attends closing session of Riyadh Summit Emir condoles Cabinet okays with Kuwait Ruler DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of condolences to the Emir ban on illegal of Kuwait H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah on the death of Sheikh Saleh Al Moham- mad Al Khaled Al Mohammad petroleum trading Al Sabah. Emir prayed the Almighty Allah to have mercy on the departed soul and make paradise his last abode and give Draft law referred to Advisory Council his family solace and fortitude. Emir also received a telephone DOHA: The Prime Minister and license is also to be banned. call from the Emir of Kuwait. Interior Minister H E Sheikh Obtaining a share of petroleum Both leaders reviewed fraternal Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa products that are distributed by ties in addition to a number of Al Thani yesterday presided over licensed entities while submitting issues of mutual interest. the Cabinet’s regular weekly incorrect information or meeting at Emiri Diwan premises. documents is to be banned, too. Following the meeting, Deputy Also to be banned will be First Qatari soldier Prime Minister and Minister carrying on receiving a quota of State for Cabinet Affairs, of petroleum products that are Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with leaders and heads of delegations of Arab and South martyred in Yemen H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al distributed by licenced entities American countries at the closing session of the 4th Summit of Arab and South American countries at Mahmoud, said the cabinet after the end of the purpose King Abdulaziz International Conference Centre in Riyadh, yesterday. Report on page 2 DOHA: Qatar Armed Forces reviewed topics on the agenda due to which the quota was announced yesterday the martyr- and took a set of decisions and allotted, using the allotted quota dom of soldier Mohamed Hamid measures. for purposes other than it was Suleiman while performing his The cabinet ratified a draft allotted for, and unlawfully duty as part of the Arab forces law on combating the smuggling deciding the right to a quota of MoI launches 18 new e-services participating in the operation and illegal trading of petroleum petroleum products or allotting it ‘Restoring Hope’ in Yemen. products and referred it to the to undeserving people or entities. There have been no previous Advisory Council. The draft law also includes DOHA: The Ministry of Interior Mubarak Salim Al Bouainain, cerned within the ministry. deaths reported among the Qatari According to the draft law, tightening sanctions on violators (MoI) yesterday launched more Asst Director of Public Relations The officials told reporters force though two soldiers had pre- bringing petroleum products of the provisions of the law. In than 18 new electronic services Department. that the project will contribute viously been injured, said officials. to the country or taking them the case of conviction, petroleum within its own departments as Several other senior officials to saving time as well as logis- Qatar sent 1,000 troops into out without prior permission products that were smuggled or part of its strategy to be a ‘Min- of the ministry also attended the tical requirements for service Yemen in September as part of of Qatar Petroleum (QP) is to illicitly traded shall be confiscated, istry Without Papers’. press briefing. requests. the Arab coalition battling Iran- be banned, reports Qatar News or their equivalent value would This was disclosed at a press Brigadier Al Malki said the They said that most service backed rebels. Agency (QNA). Illegal trading have to be paid if the products conference held at the Informa- ministry adopted the strategy requests made by various MoI QNA in petroleum products will also are not found. The means of tion Systems Department of the to become a ‘Ministry without departments to one another will be banned, including intentional transport, tools and materials ministry, addressed by Brigadier Papers’ to achieve financial and be processed electronically with- sale of petroleum products to used in committing the crime Abdurrahman Al Malki, Assistant technical development in the out the use of paper. The intra- Saudi supports whoever resells them without shall also be confiscated, QNA Director of Information Systems Ministry. ministry e-service project will be being granted a license. said. Department, Brigadier Abdul The project was implemented completed next year. Yemen peace talks Likewise, purchasing petroleum Continued on page 6 Rahman Majid Al Sulaiti, Direc- by the ministry’s Information Continued on page 6 products with the intention of tor from the ministry’s Strategic Systems Department in collabo- RIYADH: Saudi Foreign Minis- reselling them without having a THE PENINSULA Planning Department, and Capt ration with the authorities con- THE PENINSULA ter Adel Al Jubeir voiced support yesterday for peace talks on Yem- en’s conflict which the United Nations says will take place this month in Geneva. “We hope they will be success- Erdogan puts ful,” Jubeir told reporters after a New QFC rules by early next year summit of Arab and South Amer- ican countries in Riyadh. Syria, Iraq on “We support these negotiations By Mohammad Shoeb Traded Funds (ETFs),” said You- in rules and regulations between direct investments (FDI),” he and hope they will achieve peace, G20 agenda suf Mohamed Al Jaida, CEO and the two jurisdictions. said. He noted that the drop in security and stability in Yemen,” DOHA: The Qatar Financial Board Member, QFC. Al Jaida, who took charge as the oil prices has worked as blessing he said. ANKARA: President Recep Centre (QFC) has announced Al Jaida, speaking to reporters new CEO some five months ago, in disguise since it has further Saudi Arabia has since late Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday plans to introduce revised regu- at a roundtable meeting, said: “ said that QFC has always been a accelerated the efforts towards March led an Arab coalition fight- he wanted world leaders to dis- lations by early next year. The Certain efforts cannot be made laboratory for policy change, but economic diversification and ing Iran-backed Houthi rebels cuss conflicts in Syria and Iraq new rules will enable QFC-reg- such as listing of QFC companies, also assured that the new set of the promotion of private sector and their allies in Yemen, in sup- at a G20 summit in Turkey this istered firms to list on Qatar unless rules are revised.” rules will allow the judicial envi- development, both on the priority port of the internationally rec- weekend and is ready to take Exchange more smoothly, said a Currently, there are no QFC ronment in the QFC to expand agendas of the government. ognised government of President “stronger steps” in the region senior official of QFC yesterday. registered firms listed on the QE, and grow in a sustainable manner. “In the past ,there were some Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi. after polls this month strength- “The new set of laws, which but there is a long list of firms “With the revised laws, which sort resistance from the local Addressing the summit late on ened the ruling party, will be more aligned with the which are keen to join the stock is to be enacted by the first quar- communities, but today we enjoy Tuesday, UN Secretary General Leaders of the Group of 20 rules of Qatar Central Bank market. ter of 2016, the QFC companies the support of all, including local Ban Ki-moon said that his spe- major economies (G20), includ- (QCB) and other regulatory bod- The QFC is a fully onshore will be able to conduct business businesses and the entire govern- cial envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould ing the United States, China, ies, will provide the QFC-regis- business and financial centre more freely and smoothly across ment, which has made our man- Cheikh Ahmed, “intends to con- Japan, Russia, Canada, Australia tered companies more access to based on English Common Laws, the country, and ensure bet- date more meaningful,” he added. vene a new round of peace con- and Brazil, are to meet on Sunday the local market, including list- while the state laws are predomi- ter market stability, which will Continued on page 6 sultations in Switzerland... this and Monday in the Mediterra- ing on the Qatari bourse and nantly based on Arabic laws. As eventually attract more inter- month”. nean resort of Antalya primarily also help launching Exchange- a result, there is a contradiction national companies and foreign THE PENINSULA AFP to discuss global economic issues. But host Turkey, a Nato mem- ber which has taken in more than two million refugees and faces a Qatar-Turkey friendly tomorrow growing threat of spillover from the conflicts in neighbouring Palestinian probe finds Israel Syria and Iraq, wants the heads of state to also discuss unrest over its southern borders. behind Arafat assassination “Our inclusion of issues of Iraq and Syria to the G20 agenda is not against the primary objectives RAMALLAH: The head of the Palestinian His widow Suha lodged a complaint at of the platform,” Erdogan told a team looking into the death of Yasser Ara- a court in France in 2012, claiming that business meeting in the capital fat again accused Israel of assassinating the her husband was assassinated, sparking Ankara.