Senators Maquito Vilela and Leomar Quintanilha and congressmen Jamil Murad, Augusto Abicalil and Murilo Zauith met with Mahmoud Abbas for 50 minutes yesterday.
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Agência Brasil Brasília – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has sent a congratulatory message to the president elect of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. In the note Lula says "It is time for the Palestinian people to move ahead in the direction of peace and prosperity." Lula also praised Abbas for his democratic spirit
According to specialists, Brazilian companies may use one of the countries in the region as an export base to the others. But they must invest or sign some local partnership so as to have the advantage of zero tariffs, forecasted in the agreement that started on January 01, as the product must have a specific percentage of locally made components.
Sepúlveda Pertence, president of the Federal Electoral Court in Brazil, was invited by the Palestinian National Authority and will travel to Ramallah this Wednesday, accompanied by the former justices Torquato Jardim and Fernando Neves, and by the electoral judge Paulo de Tarso Tamburine, from the state of Minas Gerais. The suit will take place on Sunday.
Agência Brasil Rio – The Red Cross of Brazil is receiving donations to help the victims of the tidal wave in Asia, according to the president of the organization in Brazil, Luiz Fernando Hernández. He explained that the destruction of airport landing strips and transport costs are making it more difficult to send donations to
Agência Brasil Belo Horizonte – The removal of obstacles to free trade among the countries that belong to the Mercosur (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay) is one of the things in need of a solution during the summit meeting of the bloc in Belo Horizonte and Ouro Preto (MG). The Brazilian national coordinator of the
