Agência Brasil Brasília – The highway linking Brazil to the Pacific Ocean through Peru, which the presidents of Brazil, Peru and Bolivia are laying the cornerstone for today (08), is one of the priorities in the South American Regional Infrastructure Integration Initiative (IIRSA) which was created in 2000. Also part of the IIRSA is the
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Among the topics to be discussed in the 76th Meeting of the Council of Arab Ministers of Foreign Relations is the reopening of the Arab League representation offices in Brasília and Buenos Aires and other themes connected to relations between both regions.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The former director of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Supachai Panitchpakdi took office yesterday (01) as the secretary general of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad). In his place at the WTO, is now the former commissioner of trade of the European Union (EU), Pascal Lamy.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The National Supply Company (Conab) has received accreditation from the UN World Food Program. It is the first Brazilian organization to do so, and as such will supply goods from family farms, such as wheat, rice, corn, cassava flour, sugar and beans, to be distributed in poor countries. The UN World
The International Fund for Agricultural Development will hold in October, in Doha, a meeting to discuss new financial contributions. The fund works financing projects to help reduce poverty in rural zones and is formed by 164 countries. Part of the group are 20 Arab nations and the members of the Mercosur.
Agência Brasil Brasília – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the participation of developing countries as permanent members of the United Nations (UN) Security Council is "non-postponable." At a luncheon offered yesterday (09) in the Itamaraty Palace to the visiting delegation from Gambia, Lula thanked the president of that country, Yahya Jammeh, for
According to the Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, the proposal presented by the group of developing countries in the last meeting of the organization, in China, forecasts the reduction of the so-called domestic support, of subsidies to exports and market access. The negotiations of the Doha round will continue in December.
In an interview to ANBA, the Egyptian deputy minister of Foreign Trade, Achraf El Rabie, emphasised that his country will be greatly benefited by the commercial treaty currently being negotiated with the South American bloc. He also spoke of the reforms promoted by his government to attract investments and defended the creation of an air route between Brazil and Egypt.
Agência Brasil Brasília – At a meeting yesterday (17) in New York (USA), representatives of Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan discussed proposals to reform the United Nations (UN) Security Council. Brazil was represented at the meeting by the Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim. The four countries comprise the G4, a group that is seeking
