Home | 2 Business | 23 Sport | 32 2,000 students take QIB launches first Al Rayyan beat Al training in positive series of Certificate Sailiya 2-1 in Qatar road behaviours of Deposit Stars League match The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar TUESDAY 22 DECEMBER 2015 • 11 Rabia I 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6652 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Deputy PM meets Darfur Regional Authority chief Emir gets call from AEB to design Bahrain King DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a telephone call from Bahrain’s King H M Hamad bin Isa Al Al Thumama Khalifa yesterday evening. They discussed bilateral and ways of enhancing them, in addition to a number of issues of common concern. FIFA stadium Yemeni govt forces Venue to have 40,000 seating capacity near Sana’a DUBAI: Forces loyal to Yem- DOHA: The Supreme Commit- be reduced to a maximum of en’s government fought their tee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) 20,000 seats. way into the province surround- has appointed Arab Engineer- The stadium will be located ing the capital yesterday, tribal ing Bureau (AEB), the oldest in an area of 515,400sqm that sources said, the closest they have architectural and engineering already comprises four outdoor advanced toward Sana’a since consulting firm in Qatar, as the training pitches and office facili- rebels seized it in September last Design Consultant for the eighth ties currently used by the Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud year. The advance comes despite proposed host venue for the 2022 Football Association Technical met yesterday with Chairman of Darfur Regional Authority Dr Tijani Sese. The meeting was attended by Assistant a conditional agreement to extend FIFA World Cup, which will be Committee. Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hesham Youssef, a seven-day truce in Yemen, fol- located in Al Thumama. Ibrahim Mohamed Jaidah, AEB Head of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur Implementation Follow-up Office Amin Hassan Omer, who is lowing peace talks. Established in 1966, AEB boasts Group CEO & Chief Architect, also the representative of Islamic Development Bank. They discussed the results of a meeting between the See also page 8 vast experience, along with a said: “We are honoured to have three parties to discuss the preparations for establishing the Darfur Development Bank, which the Father Emir diverse portfolio of more than won a bid in an international H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani had announced. QNA / REUTERS 1,500 completed projects. The design competition to participate award-winning firm works across in such a prestigious project. For different project scales, typologies us it is an absolute privilege to be and environmental conditions, entrusted by the Supreme Com- with its approach grounded in the mittee to take the lead for the Arab world overwhelmingly opposes IS: Poll search for contextually appropri- design of this stadium.” ate and environmentally sustain- He added: “Since 1966 we have able solutions. been commended for our work on By Mohamed Osman extremist organisation, where it nuclear deal; the growth of radical the Arab people over the best Ghanim Al Kuwari, SC Compe- other projects and are thrilled, to exists, is rooted in political griev- extremism and, in particular ISIL; measures by which to combat tition Venues Executive Director, have our international-level capa- DOHA: The Arab world is ances in the Arab region and and the Syrian revolution. ISIL and armed terrorist groups said: “We are excited to announce bilities recognised by the Supreme overwhelmingly opposed to the local conflicts, and not in reli- The Index also allows compari- in general. that the design contract has been Committee. We aim to design a Islamic State of Iraq and the gious ideology, said Dr Moham- sons in the Arab public attitudes This reflects both the complex- awarded to a Qatari company AEB facility that will remain as a true Levant (ISIL) with 89 percent med Almasri, Executive Director towards the main issues surveyed ity of the issue and the sophisti- for the stadium in Al Thumama. legacy for the local community.” of participants in an opinion poll of Doha-based Arab Centre for in all AOI polls since its launch cated attitudes of the Arab public We look forward to working with Meanwhile, Chuck Baldwin, conducted in several Arab coun- Research and Policy Studies, and in 2011. towards it. them in creating a design which Project Director, TiME Qatar, the tries saying they don’t approve of coordinator of the AOI. According to Almasri, the poll The respondents cited different fits well in the surrounding area. project management company for the organisation. Almasri who presented the also surveyed views and atti- measures as the most important “With this design award, our the stadium, said: “We are very Only seven percent respond- results of AOI for 2015 here yes- tudes of the respondents towards in combating ISIL, including: sup- vision for the first FIFA World pleased that a Qatari company ents said they thought of the terday, said it is the largest pub- democracy, the relationship porting democratic transition in Cup in the Middle East contin- has been awarded the Al Thu- ISIL positively. The Arab Opinion lic opinion poll conducted in the between religion and civil and the region (28 percent); resolving ues to take shape. We now have mama design contract and look Index (AOI) 2015 was conducted Arab world, and the findings are political affairs, and the future the Palestinian issue (18 percent); six stadiums under construc- forward to working with them to in 12 Arab countries. being released for the fourth con- prospects of their home coun- ending foreign intervention (14 tion across the country and have deliver a truly unique stadium.” The results of the poll showed secutive year by the Arab Centre. tries. percent); intensifying the mili- recently held our second Local The SC’s Community Engage- that those who expressed sup- The survey’s outcome is based In fact, “sectarian tensions in tary campaign against ISIL (14 Organising Committee Board ment Team recently met with Al port for the ISIL, also known on direct interviews conducted Iraq and Syria” were cited by percent); and solving the Syrian Meeting,” Al Kuwari added. Thumama residents to hear their as Islamic State or IS or ISIS, in 12 Arab countries with 18,311 more than one-fifth of respond- crisis in line with the aspirations The stadium in Al Thumama thoughts and opinions about the drew from both “very religious” respondents. The result provides ents as a main factor which con- of the Syrian people (12 percent) will have a minimum of 40,000 stadium development and reflect and “not religious” people and scholars and policy-makers an tributed to the rise of ISIL, said would effectively end the threat seats for the 2022 FIFA World it in the project design. those who backed separation of opportunity to understand the Almasri elaborating with the help of terrorism. Cup and host matches to the Picture on page 4 religion from state as well as its views of Arab citizens on the most of graphics. Continued on page 4 quarter-finals stage. In legacy opponents. pressing topical issues, includ- The results of the poll showed mode, the stadium capacity will THE PENINSULA The support for the radical ing their opinion on the Iranian that no consensus exists among THE PENINSULA Third edition of White Book released at CSR meet Blatter, Platini banned By Sidi Mohamed from soccer for 8 years DOHA: A conference on Corpo- rate Social Responsibility (CSR), ZURICH: FIFA President Sepp which is an annual affair, was Blatter and European soccer boss held here yesterday and on its Michel Platini were both banned sidelines awards were given away from soccer for eight years yes- to local companies and institu- terday for ethics violations, leav- tions that excelled in CSR. ing the global game leaderless as This was the third consecutive it struggles with a swirl of cor- year of the conference which was ruption cases. held at the Ritz-Carlton by Dar The pair, who were also fined, Al Sharq, publishers of The Penin- had been suspended in October sula and Al Sharq newspapers. while an investigation was carried The event was held under the out into a 2m Swiss franc ($2.02m) patronage of H E Sheikh Abdul- payment that soccer’s global gov- Sepp Blatter lah bin Saoud Al Thani, Gover- erning body made to Platini in nor of Qatar Central Bank, and 2011, with Blatter’s approval. Chairman of the Sport and Social The decision means that Blat- Contribution Fund (Da’am). ter’s 17 years at the helm of world It was attended by Abdul Latif soccer will end in disgrace, and Al Mahmoud, Dar Al Sharq CEO, spells the end of Platini’s hopes and Jaber Al Harami, Editor-in- of replacing the 79-year-old in a Chief of Al Sharq and Deputy of presidential election in February. CEO, in addition to 300 partici- The Swiss, who spent four dec- pants from the public and private ades at FIFA, came out swinging, sectors, including several busi- CEO of Dar Al Sharq Abdul Latif Al Mahmoud (right) handing over a souvenir to QCB Governor H E Sheikh Abdullah holding a news conference to tell nessmen, ambassadors and many bin Saoud Al Thani, (centre) as Editor-in-Chief of Al Sharq and Deputy CEO Jaber Al Harami looks on.