www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 14 SPORT | 211 OOECD cuts 2016 Spotlight on Qatari global growth young guns as forecast to 3% Doha show begins FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 • 10 Jumada I 1437 • Volume 20 • Number 6711 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar PM meets AP Moller-Maersk Group Chief Emir condoles Instant customs with Erdogan over Ankara clearing for top blast victims global expos QNA DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday held telephone talks with Turkish Pres- Organisation, a standard that attracts ident Recep Tayyip Erdogan and global investment and global com- expressed heartfelt condolences on An advanced single- panies to engage in economic and the victims of the terrorist explosion window clearance trade dealings with Qatar without which occurred in the Turkish cap- conditions or restrictions. ital Ankara on Wednesday. system will be “For the first time we provide The Emir also prayed the used for the Doha instant services for clearing customs Almighty Allah to have mercy on transactions quickly and easily within the victims and grant the injured Jewellery and the exhibition,” said Ahmed Yousuf Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday a speedy recovery. Watches Exhibition Al Khanji, Director, Air Cargo Man- met AP Moller-Maersk Group Co. Chief Executive Nils S Andersen and his delegation. Talks dealt with The Emir strongly condemned agement and Private Airports, and cooperation between Qatar and the company and ways to develop and enhance it. and disdained the terrorist act for the first time Head, DJWE team. which was perpetuated to desta- DJWE will take place at the Qatar bilise security and terrorise people, International Exhibition Centre and and considered a crime against The Peninsula Conference (QIECC) from February 22 humanity. to 27. Its value has reached QR6.5bn, The Emir confirmed Qatar’s making it among the top three exhi- Saudi will not cut oil output support to Turkey and its brotherly bitions in the world after Basel fairs people in face of all acts of aggres- DOHA: Taking advantage of the and Hong Kong. sion and its backing of measures advanced single-window clearance He said the single-window system Ankara takes to maintain its secu- system, Nadeeb, at ports of entries has helped the world’s major compa- AFP will protect its market share and we supported the move, sending prices rity and stability. in Qatar, the General Authority of nies carry out temporary entry easily have said so,” he said. soaring. Although Tehran has not Customs (GAC) for the first time is from anywhere at a time that suits Saudi Arabia and other Opec pro- committed to any output curbs, its providing instant clearing services them. It has three paths — green, yel- ducers have refused to reduce output comments were seen as significant as Emir congratulates for exhibitions. low and red. Companies in the green RIYADH: Saudi Arabia is “not pre- to drive less competitive players, in it returns to world markets following The special service will be first path can supplement procedures elec- pared” to cut oil production, its foreign particular US shale oil producers, out the lifting of international sanctions. Gambia President used in the Doha Jewellery and tronically via Nadeeb and receive their minister said yesterday, after the top of the market. Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Watches Exhibition (DJWE) which goods immediately. The companies will exporter agreed with Russia to freeze But in the first sign of Opec and Mineral Resources Ali bin Ibrahim Al begins here on Monday. be assessed later and in case of violation output if major rivals follow. non-cartel producers cooperating after Nuaimi had earlier said the freeze is QNA The system facilitates tempo- the firm involved will be removed from “If other producers want to limit prices fell around 70 percent since “the beginning of a process.” rary release measures for clearing green to red path, and will lose supe- or agree to a freeze in terms of addi- mid-2014, Saudi Arabia and Russia The situation will be monitored in agents and allows easy goods inven- rior flexibility advantage in services. tional production that may have an had said on Tuesday they would freeze the next few months to “decide whether tory accurately and in a short time, “Flexibility in procedures does not impact on the market but Saudi Ara- output if other major producers did the we need other steps to stabilise and DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim a senior GAC official said. mean leniency in oversight, safety and bia is not prepared to cut production,” same. Venezuela, Qatar and Kuwait approve the market. We don’t want sig- bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent “Nadeeb represents a real leap the application of laws and regula- Adel Al Jubeir said in an interview. also agreed on the planned freeze fol- nificant gyrations in prices. We don’t a cable of congratulations to the and evolution and makes the customs tions,” Al Khanji said. “The oil issue will be determined lowing talks in Doha. want a reduction in supply. We want President of Gambia, Alhaji Yahya system in Qatar responsive to glo- by supply and demand and by market Saudi Arabia’s regional rival Iran to meet demand and we want a sta- Jammeh, on his country’s Independ- bal requirements set by World Trade → Continued on page 2 forces. The kingdom of Saudi Arabia surprised markets by saying it too ble oil price,” he had said. ence Day. Ministry appoints Lekhwiya beat El Jaish in QSL fixture 40 sentenced to death new heads of over 2014 Tikrit massacre departments AFP down under the anti-terrorism law, The Peninsula which stipulates death for anyone who perpetrates, incites, plans, finances or assists acts of terrorism. BAGHDAD: An Iraqi court yesterday All 47 are Iraqi citizens and were DOHA: Minister of Administrative sentenced 40 men to hang over the present in court. “Some of them did Development, Labour and Social June 2014 massacre by Sunni jihad- the killing and others assisted them,” Affairs H E Dr Issa bin Saad Jafali Al ists and allied militants of hundreds and official said, adding the 40 were Nuaimi yesterday issued a decision, of military recruits in Tikrit. sentenced to death by hanging. The appointing heads of departments The central criminal court in court did not reveal the identities of at the ministry. Baghdad found 40 of 47 defendants the defendants nor any details of the The decision follows establish- guilty of involvement in the “Speicher” circumstances of their arrest. ment of the new ministry, merging massacre, named after the base near In a similar trial last July, 24 men the ministry of administrative devel- where the victims were captured were sentenced to hang over the mas- opment and ministry of labour and before being executed. sacre, committed during the first days social affairs. “The court ordered the execution of the IS group’s sweeping offensive in There are over 25 heads of of 40 (people) convicted of involve- Iraq. All of them had denied involve- departments while some former ment in the incident, while seven were ment. Some had said they were not heads have been appointed as con- Ismail Mohamad (left) of Lekhwiya Sports Club vies for the ball with El Jaish SC’s Brazilian striker released for lack of evidence,” Iraq’s near Tikrit at the time, others that sultants, experts and specialists Wagner Renan Ribeiro during their Qatar Stars League football match. The defending champs Lekhwiya judiciary spokesman Abdel Sattar they never saw a lawyer and that the based to their position and exper- won 3-0 at the Hamad Bin Khalifa Stadium yesterday. Pic: Baher / The Peninsula → See also page 22 Bayraqdar said in the statement. confessions used to secure convic- tise. Most department heads have He said the sentences were handed tions were obtained under torture. retained their positions. Ali Al Sada has been appointed as Director of the Minister’s Office. Heads of departments under the office are: Maryam Askar Al Emadi ( internal audit ) Sheikha Nura bint UN to make first air drops of food to besieged in Syria Hamad Al Thani (planning and quality), Mishal Abdul Aziz Al Muslim (legal affairs), Abdul Rah- Reuters sharply deteriorating conditions. in many ways the first of its kind,” Egeland said, cooperation” between Russia and the US. man Al Khamees, (public relations A day after UN aid convoys reached five areas, giving no details of the air operation which is far Russia is Syria’s main ally in the five-year war, and communication), Muslim Al some besieged by government forces and oth- more costly than land convoys. while Western and Arab states support rebels Rashidi (services complex ), and ers by rebels, Jan Egeland told reporters that Deir Al Zor is the main town in a province of fighting to topple President Bashar Al Assad. Umair Al Nuaimi (government GENEVA: The United Nations plans to make its the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) had a the same name. The province links IS’s de facto UN aid agencies say they do not have access scholarship). first air drops of food aid in Syria, to Deir Al Zor, “concrete plan” for carrying out the Deir Al Zor capital in the Syrian city of Raqqa with territory to areas held by IS. Heads of departments under a town of 200,000 besieged by Islamic State (IS) operation in coming days. controlled by the militant group in neighbour- In the past 24 hours, 114 UN trucks deliv- the undersecretary of the ministry militants, the chair of a UN humanitarian task He said the WFP hoped to make progress ing Iraq.