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.
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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.
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.
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.
Website has information on the activities that followed the meeting of heads of state and documents for download.
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.
