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.
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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.
The US Trade Representative and secretary of Agriculture applauded the possibility of an agreement on the cotton dispute, after Brazil postponed the imposition of countermeasures up until the 22nd.
Brasília – The Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, stated today (31st) that Brazil intends to make a new donation to Haiti, this time of US$ 172 million. Amorim made the announcement during the International Donors Conference Towards a New Future for Haiti, promoted by the United Nations (UN) in New York. At the
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said his government should prioritise the matter when presiding the South American bloc, in the second half. He spoke at a business seminar in Amman.
