The delegation of members of Parliament from the Arab country met yesterday with Renan Calheiros, president of Brazilian Senate.
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In a meeting at the headquarters of the Arab League, the ministers approved resolution on strengthening relations with the South American countries. Before the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, which starts tomorrow in New York, representatives of the two regions will meet to discuss joint positions on many themes.
A group of eight representatives from the National Assembly of Kuwait will be arriving in Brazilian capital Brasília tomorrow. With the objective of improving the dialogue between the parliament members of both countries, they are going to meet with presidents of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, and of the Lower House, Severino Cavalcanti.
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
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.
