3rd Best News Website in the Middle East BUSINESS | 21 QATAR SPORT | 28-29 UNDER SIEGE Non-oil exports up TH Hamilton seizes by 35% from 119 pole in final pre-siege levels DAY Malaysian GP ” Sunday 1 October 2017 | 11 Muharram 1439 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Volume 22 | Number 7301 | 2 Riyals I express my pride in my Qatari people, along with the multinational and multicultural residents in Qatar. ” #Tamim_almajd Emir holds PM honours ‘diving’ & ‘parachute jumping’ graduates phone talks with Erdogan QNA mir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yes- Eterday held a telephone conversation with President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The telephone con- versation reviewed bilateral ties between the fraternal countries and discussed cur- rent issues on regional and international fronts. US lawmakers eager to discuss Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and other officials with the first batchof students of the Police College that participated in ‘diving’ and ‘parachute jumping’ courses. siege: NHRC Chief he National Human The Peninsula yesterday in the Sealine area. and Rescue Group. sessions for the graduates, started on July 23 and is aimed Rights Committee Some 105 students from the The International/ Qatar besides honouring the at preparing candidates and T(NHRC) Chairman Dr Ali rime Minister and Interior first batch of the Police College Search and Rescue Group per- participants. training them to swim and dive bin Sumaikh Al Marri has said Minister H E Sheikh Abdul- participated in the two training formed live parachute jumping The ceremony was through intensive and integrated that during his meetings with Plah bin Nasser bin Khalifa courses that were held from July holding the image of Tamim Al attended by senior officials programmes under professional a number of US Congress Al Thani attended the gradua- to September. Majd, along the flag of Qatar, and officers of the Ministry of trainers. The parachute jumping members, he had noted a tion ceremony of diving and The ceremony included flags of Internal Security Force Interior, members of the course started on September 10 strong will to discuss viola- parachute jumping courses for live parachute jumps by grad- (Lekhwiya) and the Police Col- Supreme Council of the Police and ended yesterday with the tions of human rights by the the first batch of Police College uates from a height of 5,000 lege. At the end of the ceremony, College, and parents of graduation ceremony. siege at the US Congress. students. feet, as well as paratroopers of the Prime Minister honoured and graduates. The ceremony took place the International/ Qatar Search gave away the badges of the two Meanwhile, the diving course → See also page 2 → See also page 5 Qatar to address education challenges: Al Muraikhi Enough supply of New York uncertainty caused by conflicts, Mission of the State of Qatar to was held on the sidelines of the QNA mass migration, increasing the United Nations in New York 72nd Session of the United meat in country inequality, rapid technological and the United Nations Children’s Nations General Assembly. atar has reiterated its development and other factors. Fund (Unicef) on “Partnership The Minister of State for Sachin Kumar commitment to working This came in an inaugural and Means of Cooperation Foreign Affairs stressed that The Peninsula Qtogether with United speech delivered by Minister of between Governments, education in Qatar is a collective Widam provides Nations agencies, partners and State for Foreign Affairs H E Multilateral Assistance need and a right and key to the here is enough supply of Australian, Indian, institutions to address the Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi at a Organizations, United Nations well-being of societies. meat in the local market Sudanese, Pakistan challenges of education in high-level working breakfast agencies and civil society despite the illegal block- Continued on page 6 T and Arab sheep and emergencies, economic organised by the Permanent organisations in educatio,” which → ade on Qatar by siege countries and the availability cows from Australia, will remain adequate in the Pakistan and Somalia future as Widam Food is look- to the local market. Spaniards ing to import meat from new Red Arrows perform at Doha Corniche countries. The company, rally for unity which is the largest provider of red meat in the country, is “We are opening new ahead of vote also planning to expand its branches very fast because of branch network to meet the the market demand. We now growing demand in the local have 30 branches and we plan Barcelona market. to open a lot more in future,” AFP “We have lot of new mar- he added. kets on the table. We are The efforts by the company housands of flag-wav- looking to New Zealand, Bra- will provide a big boost to the ing protesters rallied in zil, South Africa and Turkey and country in the field of food Tcities across Spain, other countries,” said Abdul sufficiency. including Barcelona and Rahman bin Mohammed Al The unjust blockade Madrid, in favour of national Khayarain, CEO of Widam talk- imposed by the siege countries unity yesterday, a day before ing to The Peninsula on the on Qatar has had no impact as a banned referendum on sidelines of an exhibition for there is no shortage of meat in independence for Catalonia. food and pharmaceutical the local market. In Barcelona, the capital companies. “Our business is going nor- of the northeastern region, a “We are the biggest com- mal. There is no shortage of crowd of several thousand pany in Qatar providing meat meat in the local market. Before filled a square in front of the for 90 percent of the market,” and after the blockade, our headquarters of the regional he added. business is as usual and there government which is push- The company plans to is no difference. We have a lot ing ahead with the vote even import meat from the new of new different countries to though the courts have ruled A scintillating show by Royal Air Force Red Arrows aircraft put crowds on cloud nine as the countries in a couple of months. bring meat from. Our main sup- it unconstitutional. autumn sky over the Doha Corniche came alive with colourful contrails streaking across “We expect to import meat pliers are Australia, Sudan, “Catalonia is Spain!” and the firmament yesterday. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula → See also page 20 from new markets in the next Somalia, Azerbaijan, India and “We are also Catalans!” they two months,” he added. Pakistan,” he added. chanted in the rain. “I am Widam provides Australian, The company, in collabo- tired of this fracture, tired of Indian, Sudanese, Pakistan and ration with the Ministry of this anti-democracy, tired of Arab sheep and cows from Aus- Economy and Commerce, runs these impositions, of this law- tralia, Pakistan and Somalia to an initiative to provide subsi- breaking,” said 54-year-old Dial 109 for education enquiries the local market. dised Arab sheep to citizens. It Maria Jose Moreno. Madrid In order to increase its pres- had launched a new slaughter has vowed to stop the refer- THE Ministry of Education and Higher Education vises this centre in order to achieve the strategy of ence across the country and to house in Central Market last endum from going ahead. has announced that the number 109 is the unified the Digital Government of the State of Qatar 2020. get more close to customers, the year, which is first of its kind in government call centre number. It noted that the company is planning to expand the country for slaughtering → See also page 17 Ministry of transport and Communications super- → Continued on page 5 its branch network. camels. 02 HOME SUNDAY 1 OCTOBER 2017 PM attends graduation of diving and parachute jumping course Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani and Staff Major General Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi, the Director-General of Public Security, and other officials at the graduation ceremony of the diving and parachute jumping courses for the first batch of the Police College students held at Sealine yesterday. Parachute jumping shows were held by some of the graduates from a height of 5,000 feet, as well as paratroopers of the International/ Qatar Search and Rescue Group holding the image of Tamim Al Majd, the flag of the State of Qatar, flags of the Internal Security Force (Lekhwiya) and the Police College. The Prime Minister honoured the graduates and distributed badges of the two sessions to the graduates. The ceremony was also attended by senior officials and officers of the Ministry of Interior, members of the Supreme Council of the Police College, and parents of graduates. 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