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Brazilian Foreign Relations minister Celso Amorim returned from Cairo on Monday (10), after participating in a League of Arab Nations meeting. During talks with Foreign Affairs ministers from the region, Amorim defined a series of preparatory activities for the Summit between Arab and South American heads of state, to take place in the first half of December, in Brazil.
One of the topics to be discussed by minister Celso Amorim in Egypt is the summit between South American and Arab heads of state. He also took an invitation form president Lula to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak inviting him to participate in the Mercosur summit in December. The North African country is interested in establishing a free trade accord with the South American economic bloc.
During an address on Friday, the Brazilian president mentioned a 56% increase in export to the region as an example of government foreign policy and took on the engagement of bringing Brazil closer to other developing countries. To Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce president Paulo Sérgio Atallah, the government is on the right track and president Lula shows engagement in the area.
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
Apart from that, at a meeting with representative João Paulo Cunha, president of the Brazilian lower house, minister Mohamed Benaïssa stated that the creation of a direct flight between both countries is being studied.
