BUSINESS | Page 1 SPORT | Page 1 Halep fi ghts back to set up title clash Trump, Xi hail progress with Mertens in two-day trade talks published in QATAR since 1978 SATURDAY Vol. XXXIX No. 11096 February 16, 2019 Jumada II 11, 1440 AH GULF TIMES www. gulf-times.com 2 Riyals Amir attends luncheon banquet in Munich US govt urged to take action against Saudi over ‘beoutQ’ he US Government has been broadcasters Sky and Canal+. urged to take action against Each submission to the US Govern- TSaudi Arabia with a coalition of ment specifi cally, directly and publicly sports and entertainment bodies de- highlighted that beoutQ has contin- manding the end of beoutQ. ued to operate its pirate operation in The development is a major show of Saudi Arabia with the full knowledge force against the continued daily theft of the Saudi Government, with several of world sport and entertainment by submissions asserting that the Saudi His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani attended a luncheon banquet held on the occasion of the 55th Munich Security Conference (MSC), at the the Saudi Arabia-backed pirate op- Government off ers a “safe haven” for invitation of the President of MSC, Wolfgang Ischinger, at the conference headquarters. Presidents, executive heads and a number of senior off icials in the security, strategic, eration “beoutQ”, beIN Media Group piracy that has now spread across Eu- economic and media fields participating at the conference attended the banquet. Page 2 said in a statement issued yesterday rope and the US. in Washington DC, London, Paris, and In addition, the US Chamber of Doha. Commerce, which is the world’s larg- A host of leading US sports and en- est business federation, and the Inter- Amir meets presidents of Afghanistan and Rwanda tertainment bodies, trade associations, national Intellectual Property Alliance and international broadcasters have (a coalition of seven trade associations made submissions to the Offi ce of the representing US companies that pro- United States Trade Representative duce copyright-protected material) (USTR) demanding that Saudi Ara- fi led submissions in which they too bia be identifi ed as a Priority Foreign noted the tremendous threat posed by Country or be placed on the Priority beoutQ piracy. All submissions were Watch List, ‘as a result of the country’s made pursuant to USTR’s 2019 Special continued support of the boldest and 301 Review, and are publicly available most sophisticated pattern of broad- on the USTR’s website “Public Hear- cast piracy that the world has ever seen’. ings: 2019 Special 301 Review” (ht- The USTR, part of the Executive Of- tps://www.regulations.gov/). fi ce of the US President, is the agency This latest development in the glo- responsible for advancing US trade bal fi ght against beoutQ is signifi cant, policy and resolving disputes with as it represents a critically important countries that do not follow the rules public call for the US Government to of international trade agreements. intervene with the Saudi Government beIN Media Group and Miramax to stop the continued daily theft of the film studio made the most detailed commercial rights of the most famous submission to the USTR on the issue and valuable brands in US sports and of the unabated Saudi piracy, filing entertainment. His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met yesterday at his His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani met yesterday at his 138 pages of detailed description and European rights holders have previ- residence in Munich with Afghanistan’s President Dr Mohamed Ashraf Ghani and his residence in Munich with Rwandan President of Paul Kagame on the sidelines of evidence. Separate submissions were ously informed the European Com- accompanying delegation on the sidelines of the 55th Munich Security Conference. the 55th Munich Security Conference. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral made by the Audiovisual Anti-Piracy mission and EU Member States of the During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral relations, ways to support and develop relations, ways to support and develop them, as well as regional and international Alliance (representing 26 leading au- rampant piracy, requesting action; for them, as well as a number of issues of joint interest. The meeting was attended by a developments. The meeting was attended by a number of Their Excellencies diovisual organisations); the Sports example, the English Premier League number of members of the off icial delegation accompanying the Amir. members of the off icial delegation accompanying the Amir. Coalition (on behalf of six major US stated last month that it has made the sports leagues); the NBA and US Ten- UK Government aware of the theft of nis Association; and international its content. To Page 2 Turkey urges US to put its weight behind Khashoggi probe Call for end to violations Reuters Oct. 2, provoking international revul- important source of US jobs and has to an international court, adding that Istanbul sion. stood by the crown prince. Ankara would deliver all documents “The CIA has not yet put its full He is also reluctant to disturb the and information regarding the case to resulting from blockade weight behind this issue. The United strategic relationship with Saudi Ara- the authorities that would carry out urkish President Tayyip Erdog- States needs to put its presence, its bia. the trial. an urged the United States yes- weight here,” Erdogan told broadcaster US lawmakers have pushed for more. A UN-led inquiry into Khashoggi’s QNA the rights of citizens and residents of Tterday to put its weight behind A Haber in an interview. Republican and Democratic mem- murder said earlier this month that Paris Qatar. the investigation into the killing of He added that Khashoggi should not bers of the US Senate asked the evidence pointed to a brutal crime He also presented a brief overview Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and be “cast aside” due to Washington’s Trump administration on Thursday “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi of the human rights situation in Qa- not to set the matter aside because of bilateral ties with the kingdom. to tell them more about Khashoggi’s offi cials. E the Chairman of the Nation- tar and the latest eff orts by the Qatari its ties with Riyadh. The CIA has assessed it was likely death, days after a missed deadline After making numerous contradic- al Human Rights Committee government in issuing legislations and Khashoggi, a Washington Post col- the crown prince ordered the killing. for a detailed report on the killing tory statements about Khashoggi’s H(NHRC), Dr Ali bin Smaikh al- reforming laws on workers’ rights and umnist and critic of Saudi Crown Riyadh denies the prince had any in- prompted an angry bipartisan back- fate, Riyadh said he had been killed Marri, has urged the French govern- human rights in general, in co-opera- Prince Mohamed bin Salman, was volvement. lash. and his body dismembered when ne- ment and parliament to include the tion with the NHRC, as well as the rati- killed in the Saudi consulate in Istan- President Donald Trump has cited Erdogan also said that Turkey was gotiations to persuade him to return to violations resulting from the blockade fi cation of the International Covenants bul by a team of Saudi operatives on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia as an determined to take the investigation Saudi Arabia failed. imposed on Qatar on the agenda of on Human Rights. meetings between French offi cials and During his meeting with the Presi- their counterparts from the blockade dent of the French National Assem- countries, while calling for a strong bly, the NHRC Chairman demanded partnership with the NHRC to defend that the repercussions of the hu- and promote human rights in Qatar manitarian crisis be discussed during Trump declares ‘emergency’ to build wall, Democrats cry foul and the world, parallel to the strategic the regular meetings of the French dialogue announced between Doha and National Assembly, especially during AFP tional security crisis on our southern Congress, immediately denounced a Paris. the hearing sessions for the French Washington border and we are going to do it one “power grab” by a president “who has This came during two meetings ministers to discuss the human rights way or the other,” Trump told reporters gone outside the bounds of the law” to held by Dr al-Marri in Paris with situation in the world and France’s in the Rose Garden of the White House. fund his 2016 campaign pledge to build President of the French National As- efforts to stop violations which take resident Donald Trump, cit- “I am going to be signing a national the wall. sembly (Parliament) Richard Ferrand, place in different parts of the world, ing an “invasion” of drugs and emergency,” said the US leader.”We New York State’s attorney general, and Minister of Justice of France out of the importance attached by Pcriminals, declared a national are talking about an invasion of our Letitia James, announced the fi rst of Nicole Belloubet. France to the protection of human emergency at the US-Mexico border country, with drugs, with human what were expected to be a slew of legal Dr al-Marri also briefed the French rights. yesterday to fund construction of his traffickers, with all types of crimi- challenges, warning a national emer- offi cials on the latest repercussions of Dr al-Marri stressed that the con- long-sought wall, a move slammed nals and gangs.” gency without legitimate cause could the blockade imposed on Qatar and the tinuation of the Gulf political cri- by Democrats as an unlawful “power Trump’s decision to resort to emer- Trump speaks about a state of emergency create a constitutional crisis, and vow- eff orts of the NHRC to end the viola- sis cannot in any way be a reason to grab.” gency powers — after a bitter stand- ing to “fi ght back with every legal tool tions that the countries of the blockade deepen the violations of human rights Trump’s extraordinary step will en- off with Democrats blocking his wall president agreed to a massive biparti- at our disposal.” continue to commit.