ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Wednesday 17 April 2013 7 Jumada II 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5672 Price: QR2 Qatar bourse Matosevic index rises by stuns 0.42 percent Verdasco Business | 23 Sport | 32 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 PM: No special relations with Sheikh Thani bin Abdulla bin Thani Brotherhood Al Thani Valley City wins Qatar’s goal is to help Syrians one more award DOHA: Qatar yesterday propaganda with wisdom. We rejected criticism that it was know why such propaganda is DOHA: Qatar’s leading real getting closer to the Muslim being spread”. estate company SAK Holding Brotherhood, saying its interac- “We didn’t bring the Group’s prestigious project tion with the Brotherhood was Brotherhood to power,” the PM Valley City has won yet another restricted to the governments said talking of Egypt. international award for best they lead in Egypt and Tunisia. “Qatar has been supporting design. The Valley City, which The people in those countries Egypt and its people from much won the high-profile French have voted the Brotherhood to before the Brotherhood rode to MIPIM ward for the ‘best power and Qatar had absolutely power.” future urban project’ last no role to play in those elections, Asked about accusations being month, walked away with the said the Prime Minister and hurled by Syrian President ‘best design in urban planning Foreign Minister, H E Sheikh Bashar Al Assad that Qatar was and design category’, at the A Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al backing Syrian rebels to destabi- Design Awards & Competition Thani. lise the country, the PM said that held in Como, Italy, on Monday. Qatar supports the people of was partly true and partly not. Sheikh Abdullah bin Thani Al these countries and they have Qatar had tried to convince The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani and German Chancellor Thani, SAK Holding Group exec- elected their governments. “So Damascus early in the upris- Angela Merkel at a joint press conference in Berlin yesterday. Another picture on page 4 utive committee member, received we are dealing with these govern- ing to consider reforms but met the award on behalf of SAK. ments. We are not dealing with “obstruction by Assad and the THE PENINSULA any individual or group.” belief that there could only be steps towards reform after the get their due. They get their Syrian people’s aspirations are Full report on page 21 The Premier was addressing a military solution”, the Prime uprising and rather began resort- rights.” The PM said, aside from fulfilled, said the PM. a news conference jointly with Minister said. ing to the use of military to crush the Syrian issue, Iran’s nuclear He called on the international the German Chancellor, Angela “Our goal is to help the Syrian the uprising. programme came up for thread- community to play an active role FBI says range Merkel, in Berlin, yesterday. He people realise their wishes and “I myself went to Damascus bare discussion with Merkel. The and help the people of Syria get is leading a delegation of elite aspirations,” he said, adding that twice after the uprising. The Iranian issue needs to be solved justice. of suspects in Qatari businessmen who were Merkel had echoed this view in regime was dilly-dallying on the through diplomatic means, use of The PM denied that there there to attend a conference on their detailed discussion of the issue of reforms.” force is in no one’s interest, said was any talk of a military pact Boston bombings investment. two-year-old conflict in which the Qatar changed its stance vis-à- the PM. between him and Merkel and Fielding questions that some United Nations estimates 70,000 vis the Syrian crisis after it found He told reporters that more said cooperation between the two BOSTON: There have so far neighbouring countries were people have died. that the regime was reluctant to than 100,000 people had perished sides was discussed in areas such been no claims of responsibility accusing Qatar of getting closer “We began supporting the introduce reforms. in Syria with the country being as politics, economy, education for the deadly Boston bombings, to the Brotherhood, the Premier rebels in Syria after the promises “We can’t call it attempts at in a shambles. and health, Qatar News Agency and investigators are consider- said: “We are aware of such accu- of Al Assad for political reforms destabilisation. We just want to The crisis there must end with (QNA) reported. ing a wide range of suspects, the sations and we are tackling the proved hollow. He didn’t take any make sure that the Syrian people immediate effect ensuing that the AGENCIES FBI said yesterday. “The range of suspects remains wide open,” FBI Special Agent Rick DesLauriers told a press conference in Boston, saying the probe into Monday’s blasts was proceeding “methodi- Assad declares Germany’s Vivantes to open clinic in Doha cally, carefully, yet with a sense of urgency.” DesLauriers said amnesty, sets investigators from the Federal DOHA: Vivantes, Germany’s Maarouf, deputy director of Through Al Faisal without Nizar Maarouf said Vivantes Bureau of Investigation, as well largest state-owned healthcare Vivantes. Borders Foundation, Aamal Group was proud of this partner- as Boston and state police, had stiff conditions group, will set up its first medi- Prime Minister and Foreign will work with Vivantes to open ship with Aamal Company. recovered items from both blast cal facility in Doha, in collabo- Minister H E Sheikh Hamad nursing schools in several under- “Aamal is the partner of choice sites including black nylon bags in DAMASCUS: President ration with Aamal company. bin Jassem bin Jabor Al Thani developed countries. for its impressive track record in which the bombs are believed to Bashar Al Assad declared a Aamal yesterday signed and the Mayor of Berlin, Klaus “This is a very significant joint attracting foreign investments have been hidden. “Fragments of general amnesty yesterday an agreement with Vivantes Wowereit, were present on the venture for us and I am delighted to Qatar. Al Faisal Holding, a BBs and nails, possibly contained as the conflict ravaging Syria International Medicine (Vivantes) occasion. to partner with Vivantes, one of major shareholder in Aamal, is in a pressure-cooker device,” showed no signs of abating, with to create a joint venture for build- The outpatient centre to be the best medical care providers considered one of the biggest were also recovered and sent to Western and Russian differ- ing an outpatient medical centre managed by Vivantes will have a across Germany and around the Qatari investors in Berlin, where the FBI laboratory at Quantico, ences proving unbridgeable. in Doha. clinic with leading doctors in dif- world. This centre will contribute Vivantes is headquartered. With Virginia for analysis, DesLauriers Under the latest decree, troops The contract was signed at the ferent fields, a diagnosis centre to Qatar’s policy of providing high this investment, the Government told reporters. More than 2,000 who deserted but did not fight Qatar Berlin Forum by Sheikh using the most up-to-date tele- quality, strong health services in of Berlin is looking forward to tips have been received as of noon against the regime may be par- Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani, medicine technology and visiting our country,” said Sheikh Faisal further cooperation between both Tuesday, he said. AFP doned if they surrender within a chairman of Aamal and Dr Nizar professors from Germany. bin Qassim Al Thani countries.” THE PENINSULA Another report on page 14 month, state news agency SANA reported. “President Assad has issued decree number 23, granting a general amnesty for crimes com- mitted before April 16, 2013,” said No aftershocks likely, the agency. But there were important exceptions to the types of crime it covers. says Met Department The amnesty is applicable to just one crime classified under the DOHA: Qatar’s Meteorology with people panicking and enquir- Terrorism Act, namely failing to Department said yesterday that ing if a quake had struck, Al Sharq inform the authorities about rebel no more aftershocks of the 7.8 reported. activity. magnitude tremor that hit Iran A large number of people were Other acts such as possessing yesterday are likely to be felt evacuated to safety from high- leaflets that encourage “terror- here due to their low intensity. rise buildings in Al Dafna and the ism” and taking up arms against The epicentre of yesterday’s towers area of West Bay as a pre- the regime are not covered. quake was some 900km from caution following the aftershocks. “Army deserters may be par- Qatar, the department said. Large groups of people had doned, if those still in Syria hand Residents of a highrise building gathered along the Corniche wait- themselves in within 30 days, and living on higher floors felt the ing to go back to their offices in those outside Syria hand them- tremors while those living on the those highrise buildings. Many selves in within 90 days,” said the lower floors didn’t, said Abdullah offices, however, asked their decree. Al Mannai, senior official from employees to go home. Under the decree, “the death the Meteorology Department. The emergency unit of Hamad penalty will be replaced with a He reiterated that a quake can- Medical Corporation (HMC) said life sentence of hard labour,” said not be forecast and people can be no injuries were reported due to SANA, stipulating that “those alerted only 30 seconds before one the aftershocks.