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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.

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 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.