The three are part of a group with 18 countries to work in preserving world cultural manifestations in danger of being extinct. Brazil is considered to be ahead of its time in the field. The country created a process for registering popular expressions, like sambas and the making of typical instruments.
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Mayada Bamie was hosted this week by the president of the entity, Antonio Sarkis Jr. She took the position at the embassy in Brasilia in January. The diplomat, graduated in Political Sciences and Education, was also the ambassador in Senegal. In Brazil, she wishes to strengthen the existing bonds between the two nations and also seek support to solve the conflicts her country is going through.
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The doctor Ismail Sukriyad, member of the Health Committee of the Lebanese Parliament, was received yesterday by many officials from the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. According to him, the two capitals, of the Brazilian state and the Arab country, have a lot to share in the fields of urbanism and public health.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, will travel to Geneva this weekend in an attempt to give a fillip to the negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) over fairer trade rules. Negotiators from the member countries of the organization were unable to achieve the desired progress towards the so-called
The countries in both blocs have promised to study the end of non-tariff barriers to simplify trade in the agricultural area. This was one of the discussions of the meeting of ministers in the economic area of both regions, which took place in Quito, capital of Ecuador. The liberation of trade of oil products is also mentioned in the final declaration.
This is the opinion of the head of the department for the Americas of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Egypt, Hamdi Dardiri, who is in the Ecuadorian capital for the ministerial meeting that starts tomorrow.
This is going to be one of the themes of the meeting of ministers in the economic area to take place this week in the capital of Ecuador. Other topics are support for holding reciprocal investments and incentives for signing commercial treaties.
This information was supplied yesterday by the Brazilian Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, during a meeting with the minister of Foreign Business of Algeria, Mohammed Bedjaoui, in Brazilian capital Brasília. The Brazil-Algeria Mixed Committee met this week for the first time in almost 20 years.
This statement was made yesterday by the minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, during a meeting with representatives of chambers of commerce, among them the secretary general of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby. Al-Assaf also confirmed his participation in the meeting of Arab and South American ministers of finance to take place in Quito, Ecuador, at the end of the month.
The minister of Environment of Sudan, Ahmed Babikir Ahmed Nahar, delivered to representatives of the UN, during a conference about biological diversity in the city of Curitiba, southern Brazil, a letter requesting help to avoid desertification in the country. Preservation of species that live in the desert is also a concern in Tunisia.
The head of office of the Ministry of the Environment of Tunisia, Habib Dimassi, handed in to the Brazilian government a study asking for exchange in experiences with the country in the fields of pollution control, ecological tourism and national parks. Dimassi participated in a conference on biological university in Curitiba and was received by the Arab Chamber in São Paulo.
