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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.
Cooperation agreements will be launched during the 1st Brazil-European Union Summit, to take place in Lisbon. The document, elaborated by European authorities, points out the importance of conclusion of EU-Mercosur association agreements, the strengthening of multilateralism, cooperation to face global challenges and regional integration, among others.
With the impasse in the WTO Doha Rounds, the National Confederation of Industries wants Brazil to seek negotiation of trade agreements with other countries and blocs, like the United States, European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Three technicians from the Ministry of Health of Lebanon are in Brazil to be trained by Brazilian professionals. They arrived on Monday and are going to stay in Brazilian capital Brasília until tomorrow. The training is part of an agreement for aid to Lebanon that the government of Brazil signed last year.
The Brazilian Savings Bank (Caixa Econômica Federal) is developing a project for cooperation with the Arab country in the field of construction. The bank is negotiating the transfer of Brazilian know-how in the use of waste for housing and road construction. The Caixa has an engineering division concerned with lowering costs of the projects it funds.
Mayada Bamie was received by directors at the organisation, in São Paulo.
