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Ânuar Nahes is going to use his experience as coordinator for follow up of Summit of South American – Arab Countries affairs to represent Brazil in Doha, the capital of Qatar. He intends to stimulate investment, trade, aerial transportation and partnerships in the area of gas. Yesterday the diplomat visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber, which was also visited by the new person in charge for follow up of Summit affairs, ambassador Arnaldo Carrilho.

The president of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, invited the president of Brazil to take part in a conference for peace in the Middle East, which should take place in the United States in November. Abbas also thanked Brazil for having received Palestinian refugees. The two met yesterday, after the opening of the UN Assembly in New York.

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

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

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.