Home | 2 Business | 13 Sport | 20 Ajyal projects to Sukuk demand FIFA World Cup address challenges remains high ‘could be expanded facing youth despite slowdown to 40 teams’ The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER 2015 • 22 Safar 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6634 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 US rejects Russian New labour housing deals claims against Turkey Contracts signed for first phase of project to house 179,000 workers WASHINGTON: The US yes- is buying oil (from IS)? Let me terday flatly rejected Russian say it. George Haswani, holder DOHA: Qatar yesterday signed contracts for claims that the Turkish govern- of a Russian passport and a Syr- the first phase of a massive labour accom- ment was in league with ISIS ian national, is one of the big- modation project that will eventually house group to smuggle oil from Syria. gest merchants in this business,” 179,000 workers. State Department spokesman Erdogan said. Prime Minister and Interior Minister Mark Toner told a news briefing He said, “a famous Russian H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa that US information was that chess player” was also involved in Al Thani attended the signing ceremony at ISIS was selling oil at the well- the oil business with IS, without Civil Defence Officers’ Club. heads to middlemen, Qatar News giving a name. “He’s also in this Contracts were signed with three private Agency reports. race,” he said. companies for the first phase of workers’ “We reject outright the premise Immediately after the speech, residential complexes in Umm Salal that the Turkish government is Russia’s Energy Minister Alex- Mohammed. in league with ISIS to smuggle ander Novak announced the sus- Minister of Municipality and Urban oil across its borders,” Toner said. pension of talks between Ankara Planning H E Sheikh Abdulrahman bin “We frankly see no evidence, none and Moscow over the major Turk- Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani and other to support such an accusation.” Stream pipeline project. senior officials were present. Meanwhile, Russian Presi- Negotiations to pipe Russian The project will be executed by private dent Vladimir Putin vowed Tur- gas to Turkey under the Black companies on a build-operate-transfer (BOT) key’s leadership would be made Sea have been floundering since basis and includes all services, facilities and to regret the downing of one of Moscow launched air strikes in entertainment areas, Qatar News Agency Russia’s warplanes as Moscow Syria in late September in sup- reports. announced a halt to talks on a port of the regime of President Seven housing complexes will be built on major gas pipeline project. Bashar Al Assad. an area of over 6.6 million square meters in As Putin fired another salvo in The latest furious exchange three phases. The designated areas are Umm his war of words with Nato mem- comes as both countries’ top dip- Salal Mohammed, Birkat Al Awamer, Umm ber Turkey, his Turkish coun- lomats held their first face-to-face Ghuwailina, Al Wakrah and Al Shamal. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani with other terpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting since the plane incident. The government will put in around QR1.6bn officials at the contracts signing ceremony at Civil Defence Officers’ Club yesterday. declared he had “proof” that Rus- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei for the project expected to be completed by sia was involved in illegal oil trad- Lavrov held talks with Turkish 2017-end. ing with the IS group in Syria. counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Sheikh Faleh bin Nasser Al Thani, initiative by setting up a strategic committee laundry, among others. Turkey has become Moscow’s the sidelines of a conference in Undersecretary for Public Services, for labour housing to put in place a framework He said the projects are being executed in prime international sparring Belgrade after Putin on Monday represented the Ministry of Municipality and that includes authorities concerned and partnership with the private sector. partner after it shot down a Rus- snubbed Erdogan at the UN cli- Urban Planning in signing the contracts. ensures the compatibility of plans with state The state will specify requirements sian jet on its border with Syria mate summit in Paris. On the other side, Jassim bin Abdullah objectives. for labour accommodations the private on November 24, sparking fury Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Al Misnad signed on behalf of Shaqab Abela Jamal Sharida Al Kaabi, Project Manager companies are obliged to fulfil. in Russia and economic sanctions Davutoglu accused Moscow of Catering Services, Nabil Bu Issa on behalf of and Director, Central Planning Office at the All three companies (developers) selected from the Kremlin. running a “Soviet propaganda Gulf Systems for Contracting and Services ministry, said first housing complexes will be for Umm Salal project will finance, construct Erdogan’s allegations of Rus- machine”. “There was a Soviet and Saif ur Rehman Khan on behalf of Redco built in Umm Salal Mohammad as the first and operate the facility for 15 years. sian complicity with IS echo alle- propaganda machine in the Cold International Trading and Contracting. phase of the project with the capacity of 24,000 Tenders have been divided into three phases gations made by Putin against War era,” he told reporters in Qatar aims to provide a permanent workers. and 12 contracts will be signed, Al Kaabi Turkey and its leader in recent Ankara. “They were called Pravda accommodation for workers in a proper More complexes will be built in Barkat Al added. days. Erdogan has furiously lies,” he said, referring to the daily environment with all services and health, Awamer in the second phase, followed by Umm Six contracts were signed in the first phase denied the allegations against newspaper that was the mouth- social, religious and entertainment facilities, Ghuwailina, Al Wakrah and Al Shamal. to build and operate the complexes in Umm him and his family. “We have the piece of the Communist Party. the Minister of Municipality and Urban The complexes will have full facilities for Salal. Contracts for the other phases will be proof in our hands. We will reveal See also page 5 Planning said on the sidelines. workers such as parks, sport areas, mosques, signed later. it to the world,” he said in a tel- He stressed the Premier’s support for the ambulance assembly points, dining halls and THE PENINSULA evised speech in Ankara. “Who AGENCIES Obama rules out Iraq-style invasion UK begins Syria air raids after parliament vote LONDON: Britain joined the US-led very real blow at the oil and the revenue Momentum to join the strikes grew They will be joined by six Typhoon jets, in Iraq, Syria bombing campaign over Syria yesterday, on which the Daesh terrorists depend,” after last month’s terror attack on Paris which took off from RAF Lossiemouth in hitting an oilfield held by Islamic State Defence Secretary Michael Fallon told the that claimed 130 lives. French President Scotland shortly after 0800 GMT, and two WASHINGTON: US President (IS) jihadists just hours after a decisive BBC, using an alternative name for IS. Francois Hollande also welcomed the “new more Tornado fighters due to take off from Barack Obama yesterday said parliamentary vote authorised air strikes. Prime Minister David Cameron’s govern- response to the call for European solidar- RAF Marham in southeast England. while the US is sending more Royal Air Force planes based in Cyprus ment was backed by 397 lawmakers com- ity”. During the 10-hour parliamentary Cameron has pledged that Britain joining forces to combat Islamic State carried out the “first offensive operation pared to 223 who opposed the bombing, debate, MPs from all parties, including air strikes on Syria will be matched by a (IS) in Iraq, it is not following the over Syria and have conducted strikes”, a giving him the strong mandate he said was main opposition Labour leader Jeremy major diplomatic push to resolve the crisis. model of its 2003 invasion of the defence ministry spokesman said, following essential for military action. Corbyn, spoke out against air strikes. The last Syria peace talks in Vienna country that locked it in violent a vote on Wednesday evening. Cameron welcomed the result of the Corbyn condemned Cameron’s “ill last month brought together 17 countries conflict there for many years. The strikes, by four Tornado fighters, House of Commons vote, writing on Twit- thought-out rush to war” and said his pro- including Russia, the US, Saudi Arabia and “We’re not going to do an Iraq- focused on six targets in the oilfield in east- ter: “I believe the house has taken the right posals “simply do not stack up”. However, Iran. It set a fixed calendar for a ceasefire style invasion of Iraq or Syria ern Syria, 48km from the Syria border, the decision to keep the UK safe — military Labour was deeply split and some 67 of followed by a transitional government in with battalions moving across the ministry said. action in Syria as one part of a broader its 231 MPs reportedly voted in favour of six months and elections one year later. desert,” he said in an interview The first two jets took off around 2330 strategy.” bombing, including 11 of Corbyn’s front- Syrian opposition figures have called this with CBS, using a common acro- GMT followed by two more an hour later, It was also immediately hailed by US bench. Britain has eight Tornado fighter unrealistic. nym for the militant group ISIL.