Agência Brasil* Brasília – The presidents of the Lower House, Arlindo Chinaglia, and of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, will participate today (07), at 3:00 pm, in the establishment of the Mercosur Parliament, at the National Assembly in Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. The Parliament will have representatives from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, as full members, and
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The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, gave a talk about the economic bloc at the 39th Congress of Arab Chambers of Commerce, in Abu Dhabi. The participants wanted to know more about the legal model of the common market and about privatisations in Brazil, to forward suggestions to their local governments.
Ministries of Social Development in Arab and South American countries are going to create professional groups turned to cooperation between the two regions in the social field. This was one of the decisions made during a meeting of ministers in the area, which ended yesterday in Cairo.
Ministers of countries in both regions are meeting in Cairo, until today, to discuss how to proceed in the social area. The first step, according to the Brazilian minister of Social Development, Patrus Ananias, who is in the Arab country, should be sharing experiences. Ananias should travel to Algeria to learn about the programs in the country for youths, elderly people and people with disabilities. He was invited to go during the meeting.
This was one of the issues tackled yesterday by the Moroccan minister of Economic Affairs, Rachid El Alami, in a meeting with the secretary general at the Itamaraty (Brazilian foreign office), Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães. The minister also had meetings at the ministries of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Social Development, Tourism, and at the Brazilian House of Representatives.
This is one of the subjects under discussion by high-level government officials from Arab and South American countries in Cairo. They are preparing a document that will be presented at a meeting for ministers in the social field, to be held next Wednesday and Thursday at the headquarters of the League of Arab States, in the capital of Egypt. The meeting is a follow-up to the agenda set at the summit of the two regions, held in May 2005 in Brazil.
On Monday the minister of Economic Affairs of the Arab country, Rachid El Alami, will be in Brazilian capital Brasília to win support to the organization of Expo 2012 in Tangiers, and to discuss economic questions and social policies. In May there will be meetings with businessmen and ministers in Rabat, and the country will also receive a trade delegation organized by the Arab Brazilian Chamber. In June, Brazilian president Lula may visit Morocco.
The Brazilian minister for Social Development and Hunger Alleviation, Patrus Ananias, is going to participate on Wednesday and Thursday of this week in a ministerial meeting in the social area in Arab and South American Countries in Cairo. Leaders from both regions are going to present, at the meeting, their social development policies. Ananias is going to discuss the Brazilian income distribution programs.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Chilean president Michelle Bachelet are going to sign today memorandums of understanding in the areas of science and technology, social security, biofuels, education and tourism. The signing is scheduled to take place at 12:15 pm, at La Moneda Palace, in Santiago (Chile), soon
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) and another three international organizations are going to promote a global meeting on commodities between May 07 and 11 in Brazilian capital Brasília. The matters to be debated will include the "conundrum of greater demand, but lower profits" with regard
Isaura Daniel*[email protected] São Paulo – The negotiation of the Doha Rounds, the global trade agreement that is being negotiated between developing and developed countries like the United States and Europe, should progress slowly, probably in 2008. This is the most probable scenery for the Doha Rounds, according to Renato Baumann, director at the Economic Commission
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The 12th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), to be held next year in Accra, capital of Ghana, will have the following theme: "Addressing the opportunities and challenges of globalisation for development." The theme was approved yesterday (19) by the Trade and Development Board at Unctad, according
The Itamaraty (Brazilian foreign office), Caixa Econômica Federal (Brazilian state-owned bank), the Ministry of Health, and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) will offer training to Lebanese professionals in several fields, such as banking technology, epidemics control, and tropical fruit culture. The effort is part of a series of commitments made by the Brazilian government for helping the Arab country.
