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.
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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.
The Ministry of Development has invited the organization to oversee the establishment of a Brazil-Egypt Business Council, after talks with the Egyptian General Authority for Investment, in Cairo.
The trade pact should be established at the bloc’s summit in Argentina. This was one a topic at the meeting between minister Miguel Jorge and his Egyptian counterpart, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, in Cairo.
According to minister Miguel Jorge, who heads a mission to the Middle East, Iran wants a trade agreement with the Mercosur. At first, a reduction of tax on trade with Brazil is going to be considered.
The Brazilian government will send a workgroup to the country to determine how to increase industrial cooperation, trade and investment. Minister Miguel Jorge is heading a business trip to Tehran.
The Palestinian foreign minister, Riad Malki, will meet with his Indian, Brazilian, and South Africa counterparts this week to discuss the peace process in the Middle East.
