From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil established diplomatic with the Comoro islands, an Arab country located in an archipelagos between the east coast of Africa and Madagascar. According to information from the Itamaraty, the Brazilian foreign office, the document was signed by the Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, and by the minister
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Agência Brasil Brasília – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), and Álvaro Uribe (Colombia), this Tuesday (29), in Ciudad Guayana, in the Venezuelan Amazon. They will discuss the strengthening of their countries relations, the war on drugs and weapons trafficking, and the combat of transnational organized crime. Prime
This will be one of the topics to be discussed during the meeting between Foreign Ministers of countries in both regions to take place today and tomorrow in Marrakech. The main objective of the meeting is to finalize the main proposal of the declaration to be submitted to the heads of state at the summit between Arab and South American countries, to take place in Brazil, in May.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations stated that the G-4 Group – Brazil, Germany, India, and Japan – is willing to work together with all other Member States of the United Nations (UN), over the next weeks, to promote the comprehensive reform announced in a report of the UN Secretary-General Kofi
In parallel to the Summit of Arab-South American Countries, scheduled for May, there should be events turned to private organizations. The Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty) is inviting 35 financial institutions that administer the funds of Arab businessmen to participate in the activities. The Ministry also invited the secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council to meet representatives of the Mercosur and discuss the proposal of the commercial agreement between both blocs.
This information was disclosed yesterday by Bahha Al Attar, of the Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade of Egypt, during meeting with representatives of the Arab Brazilian Chamber, diplomats and entrepreneurs at the headquarters of the Egyptian Businessmen Association in Cairo.
Agência Brasil Cape Town (South Africa) – This weekend the Chancellors of Brazil, India, and South Africa concluded the Trilateral Dialogue Forum, held in the Cape Town, South Africa, with the definition of cooperation agreements in various areas. Several dates were set for meetings and parallel events among the three countries between now and the
One of the themes of the preparatory meeting that will take place on the 25th and 26th in Morocco is the definition of an agenda for after the summit, which will take place in Brasilia in May. The aim is to make the bi-regional engagements continuous. The Brazilian foreign office, with the consent of the Arab countries, has already created a logo and a website for the meeting with the heads of state.
On the 25th and 26th of this month, the Foreign Ministers of both blocs are going to meet in Marrakech so as to discuss, among other topics, open points in the final declaration of the summit, scheduled to take place in Brazilian capital Brasília, in May. It is already consensus, however, that the main focus will be the economic and trade area. The idea is to make those countries involved behave and operate in an articulated manner in international forums, such as the WTO, and to adopt measures
Agência Brasil Brasília – This month Brazil reopens negotiations with the United States over the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), and the head of the Presidential Civilian Advisory Staff, Minister José Dirceu, advises: The orientation of the Brazilian government is "to advance in the negotiations," but "always within the context
The Arab diplomats based in the city of Brasília, the Brazilian capital, are going to discuss the matter with the minister of Education, Tarso Genro, on March 14. The idea is to introduce the language in schools and universities. Yesterday the Arab Ambassadors Council promoted a meeting with journalists so as to address the matter of the summit of Arab and South American heads of state, to take place in May. The final details of the event should be defined at a ministerial meeting in Morocco, at
