ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 13 Sport | 21 First-ever Asean Qatar Investment El Jaish aim to Festival begins Authority to halt Lekhwiya’s at Katara set up office juggernaut in Esplanade. in New York. final today. FRIDAY 1 MAY 2015 • 12 Rajab 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6417 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 GCC to back political Deputy Emir meets Saudi Crown Prince process in Yemen: FM Al Attiyah chairs Gulf Foreign Ministers’ meet in Riyadh DOHA: The GCC states will a critical necessity to restore the Secretary General Abdullatif Al continue to support the politi- legitimacy in Yemen and help the Zayani. cal process in Yemen and Yemeni people to stop the blood- On Iran nuclear programme, he work with the key actors of shed and prevent Yemen sliding said that the long-awaited final the international community towards discord and chaos. He agreement between the world and other concerned parties to lauded the military achievements powers and Tehran, expected in enhance the spirit of national which contributed to beginning June, must address concerns of consensus among all Yemeni of “Operation Renewal of Hope”. all countries in the region. He factions and parties. Al Attiyah said the GCC will said GCC countries welcomed The Foreign Ministers of the continue supporting the political the recent framework agreement GCC states met yesterday at process in Yemen, and work with between the two negotiating sides, Riyadh Airbase. This was a pre- the key actors of the international in line with the relevant inter- paratory meeting for the 15th community and other concerned national accords, acknowledging Consultative Meeting of the GCC parties to enhance the “spirit a country’s right to use nuclear leaders to be held in Riyadh on of national consensus among all power for civilian purposes. May 5, QNA reports. Yemeni parties, in addition to In this respect, Al Attiyah reaf- Qatar’s Foreign Minister backing the legitimate leadership firmed the GCC stance rejecting H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al that seeks to realise the aspira- the proliferation of weapons of Attiyah, who chaired the Riyadh tions of the people”. mass destruction in the Middle meet, said Decisive Storm came as Ministers also rejected hold- East, which is to be announced a ing on neutral nuclear-free zone. ground talks On Syria, Al Attiyah urged the between rival international community to seri- political forces ously seek a political solution that in Yemen. They could help realise the expectations insisted that the of the Syrian people in freedom talks be held in security and stability. Saudi Arabia. He called on the world commu- The talks would nity to assume its responsibilities be attended by and take the necessary measures “all Yemeni par- to end the Israeli occupation of ties and compo- Palestine in accordance with the Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani with Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al nents supporting international legitimacy resolu- Saud, Saudi Crown Prince, Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and Chairman of the Political and Security Affairs, Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah legitimacy as tions, so that the Palestinian people in Riyadh yesterday. The Deputy Emir congratulated Prince Mohammad bin Nayef on being appointed Crown well as Yemen’s could have their own independent addressing the GCC Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Prince of Saudi Arabia, and extended congratulations from Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for the security and sta- state with Al Quds as capital. Riyadh yesterday. same. Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani was also present. bility,” said GCC THE PENINSULA/AFP See also page 3 QRC portals to trace Nepal missing Iranian watermelon safe DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent The missing persons, if they missing persons were being for- persons in Nepal,” Al Kuwari said. for consumption: SCH (QRC) has launched an ini- are alive, can respond on the fol- warded to Nepal through the Meanwhile, QRC has launched tiative to trace, for Nepalese lowing portal: http://familylnks. International Federation of Red a drive locally to collect QR12m DOHA: The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said yesterday that expatriates here, their rela- icrc.org/nepal-earthquake/en/ Cross and Red Crescent Societies. ($3.3m) in donations for relief and Iranian watermelon in the local market are safe for consumption. tives who are missing after last Pages/Home.aspx She said arrangements were in rescue work in the quake-ravaged Laboratory tests conducted on watermelon samples showed that Saturday’s earthquake in the Nepalese can also visit the place for the Nepalese here to country. A QRC team reached they are free from contamination by chemical or biological sub- Himalayan nation. office of QRC in the Old Ghanem talk to their relatives back home Nepal with tonnes of medicine stances or microbes, said a SCH statement yesterday. Municipal The organisation has launched area of Doha and file a request to on phone or through audio-visual stocks and a mobile hospital inspectors on Wednesday collected samples from the market and two portals — one for Nepalese contact their missing relatives on mediums. within 48 hours of the disaster. sent them for lab tests following complaints from the public about expatriates to key in details of an application form. Twenty-five trained volun- QRC Secretary-General Saleh contaminated Iranian watermelon. People posted pictures and their missing relatives, the other The QRC office works Sunday teers are manning QRC’s office bin Ali Al Mohannadi said QRC’s comments on the social media, forcing the authorities to respond. for the missing persons to send to Thursday from 10am to 1pm to register the missing persons’ relief and rescue work will con- The SCH said that the holes found on the surface of the watermelon their messages, if they are alive. and from 4pm to 7pm. details. Some 10 of the volunteers tinue for three months in Nepal were caused by previous infection by insects which no more exists The QRC gave the address of Fatima Al Kuwari, a QRC vol- are Arabic-speaking while the after which the second phase that and do not pose any health hazards. The tests were conducted at the first portal, to register the unteer heading the office, said remaining are from Europe and of rebuilding and rehabilitation ini- the Central Food Laboratory at the SCH. The SCH urged the public details of the missing, as http:// requests for connecting with miss- Asia (including Nepal, Pakistan tiatives will begin. He said QR1m not to create panic by circulating wrong information and check the familylinks.icrc.org/nepal-earth- ing persons in Nepal were being and Indonesia). “We are receiv- was sent to Nepal for instant relief facts with the authorities concerned. THE PENINSULA quake/en/Pages/register-miss- treated as highly confidential. ing people on a daily basis who are work. THE PENINSULA ing.aspx She said that enquiries for requesting us to connect to missing See also page 2 Qatar agrees to buy 24 Rafale fighter jets, says France Basketball: Al Gharafa win Qatar Cup Nasa spacecraft PARIS: Qatar has agreed to buy 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets in a ¤6.3bn ($7bn) deal, the French government said crashes into yesterday. The contract also includes MBDA missiles, and the training of 36 Qatari pilots and 100 technicians by the French army, Mercury’s surface a French Defence Ministry official said. “The president spoke to H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, who CAPE CANAVERAL: Nasa’s confirmed his desire to buy 24 Rafale combat planes,” President pioneering Messenger space- Francois Hollande’s office said. Eleven planes will be delivered each craft ended its four-year study year from mid-2018. Dassault Chief Executive Eric Trappier told of the planet Mercury yester- BFM TV that Qatar had an option to buy 12 more planes. Hollande day by crashing into the planet’s will travel to Doha on May 4 to sign the contract. surface, scientists said. Flight controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Iran to release seized Maersk Physics Laboratory in Maryland earlier estimated that Messenger, vessel after ‘debt settled’ traveling at more than 8,700 mph (14,000 kph), would hit the COPENHAGEN: Iran will release a cargo vessel chartered by ground near Mercury’s north pole Danish shipping group A P Moeller-Maersk as soon as the com- at 3:26pm EDT (1926 GMT). pany settles a debt stemming from a long-running business dispute, Messenger, with no more fuel to the Iranian embassy in Denmark said yesterday. “Iranian authori- manoeuvre, fought the downward ties reiterate that there has been absolutely no political or security push of the sun’s gravity until it intentions or considerations behind the incident,” the statement said. impacted the planet’s surface. “The seizure of the ship was solely an enforcement of a judicial court During its 4,104 orbits of ruling resulting from a commercial dispute between two private Mercury, Messenger made sur- Al Gharafa players celebrate their win over El Jaish in the final of Qatar Cup Basketball at Al Gharafa Stadium parties,” it added. Maersk said it was told by the Iranian Ports and prising detections of potassium, yesterday. Al Gharafa won 65-57. See also page 18 BAHER AMIN Maritime Organisation at a meeting on Wednesday that an Iranian sulfur and other volatiles on the court had ordered it to pay $3.6m in compensation in the case.