Agência Brasil* New York – The Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said yesterday (25) that, for the first time ever, the Doha round is close to reaching a conclusion. He also claimed to be convinced that the agreement shall be closed still this year. "There has already been a change in the behaviour
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Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva called yesterday (25), at the 62nd General Assembly of the United Nations, in New York, for developing countries to promote joint actions against global warming. Lula mentioned biofuels as a new energy option and said that they may also generate income in regions of the world like Latin America, Asia and Africa.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, will have a meeting this Tuesday (25), in New York, with the president of the National Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. The two will meet at 11:00 am, as part of the parallel agenda for the heads of state attending the
They were forwarded to the states of São Paulo (SE) and Rio Grande do Sul (S), where they will receive IDs and passports, and will also have access to public health and education services. Two other groups will be brought in the following months, totalling 117 people.
Rachid Talbi Alami, minister-delegate to the prime minister of Morocco, was met yesterday, in Brazilian capital Brasília, by the vice president of Brazil, who is acting president due to an international trip by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. He has come to ask for support from Brazil for Morocco to host an international exhibition in 2012. The fair is organised by the International Exhibitions Bureau (BIE), of which Brazil is a member.
This information was disclosed by the director of the International Negotiations Department at the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations, Evandro Didonet, who spoke during the Encomex, a foreign trade meeting that took place yesterday (4) in São Paulo, the largest business centre in Brazil. According to him, talks for a trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council should be restarted before the end of the year.
According to the Brazilian ambassador in Riyadh, Isnard Penha Brasil Jr., businessmen in the Arab country are discovering Brazil as an investment destination. The diplomat is in Brazil on vacation, and had a meeting yesterday with leaders at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, in the southeastern Brazilian city of São Paulo.
The information was supplied by the Egyptian minister of Social Solidarity, Ali El-Sayed Al-Moselhy, who completed yesterday his schedule of visits to the municipality of Guarulhos (southeast Brazil), where he spent two days getting more closely acquainted with the execution of the Zero Hunger (Fome Zero) programme of the Brazilian federal government. Even though it invests heavily in food programmes for the low-income population, the government of Egypt should broaden its scope of action, takin
The Egyptian minister of Social Solidarity, Ali El-Sayed Al-Moselhi, said to ANBA that he intends to create popular priced restaurants, similar to those that exist in Brazil, in Egypt. Yesterday, Al-Moselhi, who is in the country on a mission to get acquainted with national social projects, had lunch at a popular priced restaurant in the municipality of Guarulhos (SE).
The document was signed yesterday by the Brazilian minister of Social Development, Patrus Ananias, and by the Egyptian minister of Social Solidarity, Ali El-Sayed Al-Moselhi. It provides for knowledge exchange in programmes such as the Family Purse (Bolsa Família), a conditioned income transfer programme of the Brazilian federal government.
The Egyptian minister of Social Solidarity, Ali El-Sayed Al-Moselhi, became acquainted yesterday in Brasília (capital of Brazil) with how the Brazilian government runs its Zero Hunger social action programme. Al-Moselhi is in the country with a delegation of seven people. At the Ministry of Social Development, the group wanted to know how the programme is executed, counting on work from 11 different ministries.
The diplomat Ligia Maria Scherer should assume the Brazilian representative office in Ramallah in the month of October. Last Friday, she paid a visit to the Arab Brazilian Chamber headquarters. Ligia is currently the minister counsellor at the Permanent Representation of Brazil to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Musa Amer Odeh travelled to Brazilian capital Brasília, where he met the president and the minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, seeking aid for establishing peace in the Arab country. According to Odeh, Brazil is an example of support, justice and peace to countries in conflict.
