Browsing: Foreign Affairs

These were some of the results of the two-day visit by Moroccan chancellor Mohamed Benaïssa to Brasília. Closer relations between both countries and South-South cooperation were the main topics of his talks with president Lula, with ministers Celso Amorim (Foreign Relations), Luiz Fernando Furlan (Development) and Gilberto Gil (Culture) and with João Paulo Cunha, president of the lower house. From these meetings arose the possibility of an accord with the Mercosur and the creation of a new regul

Mohamed Benaïssa, Moroccan minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation met president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brasília yesterday. Among the topics discussed were the increase of cooperation between developing countries, negotiations between the Mercosur, the Common Market of the South, a customs union between Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, and the North African country, and the organization of the summit between the South Americana and Arab countries to take place in Brazil in Dec

Agência Brasil Brasília – A total of 1,470 Brazilian soldiers have begun training to eventually command a multinational peacekeeping mission in Haiti. According to minister of Defense, José Viegas, the Brazilians are scheduled to arrive in Haiti in July for a six-month period which could be extended. When Brazil takes over the command, other nations

Agência Brasil Brasília – On Sunday (4), the American newspaper Washington Post published an article alleging that Brazil is not allowing experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to inspect the uranium enrichment plant that is under construction in Resende, in the state of Rio de Janeiro. According to the newspaper, the Brazilian refusal

The country wants Brazilian oil company Petrobras to join forces with other foreign companies to explore oil in the Red Sea. The country is also interested in a Brazilian company to supply boilers to a sugar mill, and in negotiation agricultural technology. "We want to come closer to Brazil," informed Ramatullah Mohamed Othman, Sudanese ambassador in Brasília, to ANBA.