ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Friday 7 November 2012 23 Muharram 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5541 Price: QR2 Car powered Cook’s record by solar ton powers panels England Business | 13 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets French Foreign Minister UN climate Call to bring meet to wrap up today law for the BY SATISH KANADY DOHA: After a roller-coaster of debates and negotiations over brain-dead two weeks, the Doha Climate talks are to conclude today. The last few days’ headlines sug- gest there is nothing much to be ‘Move will promote organ donation’ expected from the 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties DOHA: A senior official of terms of organ transplant,” said to the UNFCCC. Hamad Medical Corporation Al Maslamani. The Parties, pressure groups (HMC) has called for a new law He said Spain was leading in and the negotiating blocs are that authorises doctors to take organ donation with 33 donors expecting to carry a mixed bag brain-dead patients off the ven- per million people while in the of results from Doha. tilator as a means to promote Middle East the ratio is as low as The developing nations are organ transplant in the country one per million. expecting last minute closing on and address severe shortage of “About 99 percent of the donors the second commitment of Kyoto donors. in Qatar are expatriates because Protocol and the much-vaunted “There is no law in Qatar that Qataris have not yet accepted Green Climate Fund. However, authorises doctors to take a brain- the idea of organ donation. And NGOs and Civil society groups dead patient off the ventilator. We many Asians have reservations yesterday said the Doha talks are just try to convince the families about operating on the body after on the brink and asked that the of such patients to donate their death,” he added. presidency help political leader- organs. In future we will need a He said the HMC was trying ship finalise a deal in Doha . law (for this purpose),” Dr Yousuf to promote organ donation by The developed nations are Al Maslamani, head of the Organ providing incentives to families expected to announce their posi- Transplant Committee at HMC, of the brain-dead people such as tions today. The US, European told local Arabic daily Al Arab in financial support to take the body The Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, who is visiting Union and UK will come out with an interview. home, free air ticket and accom- Doha to participate in the Climate Change Conference (COP18). Talks at the meeting dealt with bilateral ties separate statements. The Emiri decree says that modation for one of the relatives and means of boosting them. See also page 2 The G77 and China will hold three specialist doctors should visiting Qatar and air ticket for the final rounds of discussion check the patient to make sure those accompanying the body today. OPEC countries are also he is brain-dead and they have home. holding their last round of discus- to sign a statement to this “Recently we signed an agree- sions today. Yesterday, the BASIC effect. ment with Qatar Charity for Young Kuwaitis hold protest march Group of countries — Brazil, There is a Fatwa (religious sponsoring the families of donors South Africa, India and China — edict) by renowned Qatar-based after death and we are waiting KUWAIT: Hundreds of young The opposition, which includes cars honking their horns. projected solidarity on key issues Islamic scholar Dr Yosuf Al for other charities to follow suit,” Kuwaitis chanting protest slo- Islamist and populist politicians, The men let off fireworks and emerging at Doha climate talks. Qaradawi that gives doctors the said Al Maslamani. gans gathered at a roundabout refused to stand in the election chanted “One, one, one, we don’t The bloc said it is hopeful of Doha right to take a decision on brain- HMC has registered 4,500 outside Kuwait’s capital yester- in protest at a decree issued by want one vote!” closing the Kyoto Protocol 2 and dead patients, if they are sure potential donors who pledged to day in the latest snap demon- Kuwait’s ruler which reduced the Small groups of police gathered a mid-term finance, if not a long- about his condition. The Fatwa is donate their organs after death. stration since a parliamentary number of votes per citizens to in the surrounding streets. term one, on Global Climate Fund. however not legally binding since But transplant after death could election on Saturday. one from four. The authorised march, There is speculation that the it is only a religious opinion, said be successful only in the case Police have broken up several The young men protesting attended by men, women and summit might be extended by one the official. of brain-dead people. There are marches outside Kuwait City since on Wednesday, wearing surgical children, was organised by youth more day, but there was no official “This year, from January until 150 kidney patients and 23 liver Saturday, part of protests trig- masks, balaclavas and scarves groups and backed by opposition announcement to this effect. The the end of September there were patients at HMC currently wait- gered by changes to voting rules wrapped around their faces, politicians. UNFCCC has announced a clos- 78 brain death cases at HMC ing a transplant. the opposition said were designed marched along a main street in They plan another march ing media conference today. but we could benefit from only THE PENINSULA to skew elections in favour of pro- a district southwest of the capi- tomorrow. THE PENINSULA two of those, both of Asians, in Continued on page 2 government candidates. tal and were followed by scores of REUTERS See also page 3 Fifa extends Mursi calls for national dialogue Two activists held for Bin Hammam’s CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood’s main office in protesting at COP18 provisional ban Cairo was set ablaze yester- day, the group’s political party BY FAZEENA SALEEM PARIS: Fifa have extended said, and another office used Fakhry, Media Campaigner for the provisional ban of former by the party was torched in indyACT, told this newspaper. Asian Football Confederation a suburb south of the city, the DOHA: Two young Arab activ- “We didn’t seek permission (AFC) president Mohamed bin state news agency reported, ists were whisked away by the because there was no time. It Hammam, world football’s gov- while President Mohammed UN security personnel at the (announcement by member-coun- erning body said yesterday. Mursi addressed the nation late Climate Change conference tries of their pledge to cut carbon The 63-year-old Qatari had last night. venue here yesterday for staging emissions) was an urgent matter a lifetime ban overturned by Fierce overnight clashes killed a protest without seeking formal to be addressed,” Fakhry said. the Court of Arbitration for seven people but passions ran approval from the organisers. “We want to see the COP meet- Sport (CAS) in July due to lack high in a struggle over the coun- The UN is expected to issue a ing being held in an Arab country of evidence over corruption try’s future. press statement on the issue today, for the first time to succeed,” he allegations, but was banned The Freedom and Justice Party but the colleagues of the duo told added. Fakhry said they were not again provisionally by Fifa who said on its Facebook page that the this newspaper that they (the pro- surprised that the activists were launched a new probe by ethics headquarters in the Mukattam testers) were to be repatriated to whisked away. “But the decision committee investigator Michael district had been attacked in “a their home countries later in the to send them back to their home Garcia. terrorist aggression” by thugs. day. Mohamed Anis Amirouche countries was shocking,” he said. The final report was completed The state news agency said and Raied Gheblawi, from an NGO Over 100 young Arab activ- on December 4 and submitted the office used by the FJP was — indyACT, were intercepted and ists are here to make their voice to the adjudicatory chamber of set ablaze in the Cairo suburb of whisked away by the UN security heard at the COP18 UN Climate A protester who was injured during overnight clashes between supporters the Fifa Ethics Committee for Maadi. Another office was broken personnel at the Qatar National Change Conference and Qatar has and opponents of Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi, being detained examination. into near the city centre, it said. Convention Centre (QNCC) last sponsored some of them. In it Garcia requested the In his speech, Mursi invited in front of the presidential palace in Cairo yesterday. afternoon for displaying a huge A newly-formed Arab Youth imposition of provisional meas- political groups, judges and others on the new constitution has of parties, revolutionary youth banner demanding that member- Climate Movement (AYCM) has ures against Bin Hammam “given to meet tomorrow for a national infuriated opposition groups and senior legal figures to meet countries must announce their waged a campaign on Facebook the extraordinarily complex dialogue on a political road map and led to lethal street violence this Saturday,” Mursi said in a pledge to cut carbon emissions. and Twitter against the arrest nature and the considerable scope after a referendum on a new between Mursi’s supporters and televised address yesterday, say- They were asking the COP18 and alleged repatriation of the of the present case”.