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Agência Brasil* Brasília – The extraordinary Brazilian ambassador to the Middle East, Affonso Celso de Ouro-Preto, announced today (1), in Stockholm, Sweden, a contribution of US$ 500,000 by the Brazilian government to humanitarian projects developed by the United Nations (UN) in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. He is coordinating the Brazilian delegation at the International Conference
After six years heading the Libyan embassy in Brazilian capital Brasília, diplomat Mohamed Heimeda Saad Matri is going to return to his country to take over the Libyan government Americas department. The Arab country wants to prioritise relations with Latin America and Brazil, according to Matri. Yesterday he was honoured at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce.
On Friday (18), the diplomat, who is the head of the Middle East Department at the Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty), met with the president at the organization, Antonio Sarkis Jr. In an interview to ANBA, he stated that trade between Brazil and the Arab countries may be expanded.
The Brazilian oil company is creating a teaching method for the training of socially and environmentally responsible executives. It will be implemented, in pilot format, at the Petrobras University, in Rio de Janeiro, and will then be transferred to business schools all around the world.
The meeting should take place in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, and the Brazilian negotiators believe it will be possible to significantly advance in negotiations of the free trade treaty. The South American block is also going to organize a seminar about investment in the region.
Government representatives from the two regions met in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, last week. They decided the dates and places of the next sectorial events following the Summit for South American and Arab Countries.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) promotes between today and Wednesday (26), in Geneva, Switzerland, a workshop to train leadership in 16 African countries in how to participate in an effective manner in the negotiations of the Doha round of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). There
During the summit of the South American bloc, last week, Brazil took up the rotating presidency of the group. The Brazilian diplomacy plans of to conclude the commercial agreements, like the ones already in negotiation with the countries of the Gulf.
Bernardo de Azevedo Brito is one of the most experienced people in the Brazilian Foreign Office, and has the curriculum of a pioneer, since he was responsible for opening many embassies, like that of Zambia, Zimbabwe and Namibia, and most recently the representation office in Ramallah, on the West Bank. Now he is going to use this experience in a new mission: make relations between the two countries go back to having the strength they had in the past.
The meeting of diplomats will take place on the 18th and 19th this month. Committees that will follow the initiatives from the two blocs in the fields of economics and culture will be established. The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation and the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology will present the pilot of a website on technological cooperation.
