The Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrives at Doha on this Friday with an economic and political agenda. He will be accompanied by 40 businessmen seeking business opportunities.
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‘The 21st century must be the African renaissance and we would like to share our experience,’ said Brazilian president Lula on Monday to African ministers meeting in Brasília.
The director general of the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, Jacques Diouf, praised the Brazilian program against poverty, which he called an example to the world.
The Brazilian president should be in the country on the 14th and 15th. The political agenda includes the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and the nuclear program of Iran, to be visited too.
Representatives of the Arab Chambers of Commerce from several countries met in Beirut yesterday to discuss measures geared towards expanding bilateral trade.
Document signed by the Lebanese president, Michel Sleiman, and the National Archive, in Rio, will allow Brazilians of Lebanese origin to retrieve their Lebanese citizenship.
Wafaa Sleiman, president Michel Sleiman’s wife, visited the Cedar of Lebanon Association for Childhood Protection in São Paulo today. The organization serves 2,300 impoverished children and adolescent
A document on the matter was signed by the Brazilian minister of Social Development and Hunger Alleviation, Márcia Lopes, and the Lebanese minister of Social Affairs, Selim El Sayegh, in Brasília.
Lula stated that the Brazilian foreign minister will head to Tehran today in order to discuss the impasse on the country’s nuclear program. Brazil is against new sanctions, as are Lebanon and Turkey.
The statement was made by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during luncheon in Brasília with his Lebanese counterpart, Michel Sleiman. To him, the country must increase product imports from Lebanon.
Michel Sleiman will make his first trip to Brazil. He should go to Brasília, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. During the visit, conflict in the Middle East and the Lebanese community will be discussed.
The organization’s president, Salim Schahin, is now in Damascus. He spoke with local authorities of the Brazil-Syria Business Council and of the Syrian expatriates meeting due in São Paulo.
The Lebanese prime minister, Saad Hariri, expressed his willingness to negotiate with Brazilian companies during a meeting with the Brazilian minister Miguel Jorge, in Beirut.
After a meeting between foreign ministers of the group and the Palestinian foreign minister, Riad Malki, the Brazilian Celso Amorim said ‘greater engagement’ of the bloc in peace talks has begun.
