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WORLD NEWS Saturday 16 September 2017

Qatari emir meets Merkel, Macron in 1st trip since crisis

alleged support for extrem- centrate on the roots of ter- He left the Elysee palace
ists. rorism.” without speaking to the
Qatar denies supporting Germany has been sup- press.
extremism, saying the crisis porting diplomatic efforts On the first stop, the emir
is politically motivated. to try and defuse the crisis. met Thursday night in Anka-
In Berlin, the emir reiterated Its foreign minister has said ra with Turkish President Re-
that his country is open to the country’s intelligence cep Tayyip Erdogan, who’s
negotiations with its neigh- service would play a role been a major supporter
bors, saying through a in clearing up accusations of his country during the
translator that “Qatar is that Qatar supports terrorist three-month-old conflict.
prepared to take a seat at groups. Turkey has shown solidar-
the table to solve this prob- Following the meetings ity with Doha by delivering
lem.” with Merkel, the emir went food and other supplies
He also said that fighting to Paris for talks with French and boosting military ties,
terrorism “is a big priority President Emmanuel Ma- including sending troops to
for us and we have to con- cron. a Turkish base there.q

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Qatar’s Emir
Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani, right, shake hands af-
ter a joint news conference as part of a meeting at the
chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.
(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

By DAVID RISING ers alongside the emir,
Associated Press Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad
BERLIN (AP) — Qatar’s rul- Al Thani, said she hoped di-
ing emir met German alogue could lead to “fair
Chancellor Angela Merkel compromises.”
on Friday on his first trip “It’s cause for great con-
abroad since a diplomat- cern that after 100 days a
ic crisis erupted between solution to this conflict is still
the tiny Gulf nation and its not in sight,” she said.
neighbors, and the Ger- Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bah-
man leader voiced “great rain and the United Arab
concern” that no end to Emirates cut ties with Qa-
the conflict is in sight. tar in June over its close
Merkel, addressing report- relations with Iran and its

Polish PM tries to counter critics
over changes to justice system

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — But the new legislation has
Poland’s prime minister been met with condem-
met on Friday with people nation from the European
who say they feel wronged Union leaders, street pro-
by the justice system as the tests and with a partial
government tries to coun- veto from President Andrzej
ter criticism that its reorga- Duda.Aiming to stress the
nization of the judiciary vio- need for the reorganiza-
lates the rule of law. tion, Prime Minister Beata
The ruling conservative Szydlo and Justice Minister
Law and Justice party says Zbigniew Ziobro met with
it needs to make deep some 20 dissatisfied people
changes in the justice sys- and heard their stories. Szy-
tem which it calls inefficient dlo later said many of them
and not always fair, with have lost almost everything
cases sometimes dragging as a result of “wrong deci-
for years. It says Poles are sions by the insensitive, in-
expecting the change. human justice system.”q