The president made the statement to Algerian journalists before leaving Brasília on his way to Algiers.
Author: Mark Ament
Two jewellers from the state of São Paulo, Denoir and Guilherme Duque, have bet on partnerships, one with top model Ana Hickmann, who helped design the jewels and signs one collection, and the other with stylist Fause Haten. Both companies participated in the Feninjer fair, which ended yesterday in São Paulo.
The establishment of a diplomatic office has already been authorized by president Lula and should take place in the first half of this year. It takes place after the opening of a Sudanese embassy in Brazilian capital Brasília. This week Brazil was news in the Sudanese press, due to the first participation of the Arab Brazilian Chamber in Khartoum International Fair.
Vancox was visited by a great importer from Riyadh during the company participation at the Feninjer, the National Fair of the Jewels, Watches and Related Articles Industry, which took place in São Paulo, SE Brazil. Organized by the Brazilian Institute of Gems and Precious Metals (IBGM), the event presents the release of the main jewellery industries from the country and attracts domestic and foreign buyers.
The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation is going to send seeds of Gonçalo Alves trees, typical of the Brazilian savannah, to the International Space Station on the trip that Russian spacecraft Soyuz will make in March. The intention is to observe the germination of the plant to better understand the influence of gravity on its development. This depends only on tests that are being executed at the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe) by Russian scientists.
The Brazilian president will be in the Arab country as from tomorrow accompanied by other representatives of the government and of companies like state-owned oil giant Petrobras, Randon, in the trailer sector, and Andrade Gutierrez, a construction company. They are going to meet with executives from Algerian companies. During the visit agreements will also be signed between both countries.
Purchases of products from the region grew 32.6% in the first month of the year when compared to January 2005. According to the president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Antonio Sarkis Jr., this shows the Brazil worries not only with selling, but also with strengthening trade with the region. Exports rose 22.3% in the month, over the 20% forecasted by the organisation for this year.
The government of the Arab country opened the sector to private exploration and the president of state-owned mining company Maaden, Abdallah Dabbagh, was in Brazil to begin negotiations with domestic companies. In an interview to ANBA, he said that talks are promising. The privatisation involves four exploration areas: precious metals, phosphates, bauxite and industrial minerals.
A study by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) showed that small businesses in the state of São Paulo had 1.9% greater revenues last year than in 2004.
Group GPS, from the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, is going to send a trader on a trip to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Egypt. He is going to seek distributors for products like lollipops, coffee, chocolate drinks and powdered drinks. This year the company intends to promote four trips to the Middle East and North Africa with the objective of guaranteeing entry into markets in the region.
The meeting is going to take place between February 28 and March 02 in Dubai. Abdul Salam Al Madani, a director at Index, the company that organizes the event, participated in the 24th International Dentistry Congress in São Paulo, which ends today. According to him, the Middle East has 98,000 dentists who need to import all kinds of equipment and material.
Executives from Dubai Properties, the real estate development company, are in São Paulo (SE Brazil) to promote undertakings that are being developed in the emirate. According to Fahad Al Gergawi, a company director, enterprises to be built over the next 10 years should generate a turnover of US$ 110 billion. With the sector expanding significantly, Dubai also offers opportunities to construction companies.
Brazilian mining company Vale do Rio Doce intends to expand activities and modernize productive processes this year. The target is to increase production of iron ore to 264.4 million tonnes up to the end of the year. In Brazil, the expansion should generate 137,000 new job opportunities.
The Brazilian government has made a sanitary agreement with the Tunisians. The agreement establishes the rules for exports of live cattle, boneless meat, fish, hatching eggs and one-day-old chicks to the Arab country. The understandings were reached during a mission led by the Tunisian Foreign Minister, Abdelwahab Abdallah, to Brazil.
