Agência Brasil Brasília – Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, arrived in Beijing on Sunday and has already begun working out the details of agreements that president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will sign during his official visit in May. Among those agreements are a Mercosur-China free trade agreement and one on cooperation in mining
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Agência Brasil Brasília – The Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, arrived yesterday (18) in Ankara, capital of Turkey. He will visit the country until Saturday (20) as official guest of the Turkish government and has meetings scheduled with Turkish President Ahmet Necnet Sezer and Chancellor Abdullah Gül. Amorim is the first Brazilian Foreign Minister
Agência Brasil Brasília – As part of an international cooperation program to assist victims of AIDS around the world, yesterday Brazil sent drugs to Columbia, El Salvador, Paraguay and the Domincan Republic. The drugs were manufactured in Brazil and are sufficient for 100 patients in each country for a period of three months. The program
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – At the end of their meeting yesterday, the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, agreed to a significant expansion of bilateral cooperation. The two presidents signed a document on relations with international organizations. They also signed a joint communiqué, which is being called
The minister stated that US and French authorities have requested that the country play "a leadership role". He pointed out, however, that there has not yet been a formal invitation.
The Brazilian foreign relations minister also stated that closer relations between the developing countries will be one of the themes of the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), to take place in São Paulo in June.
After the visit of Lebanese president Émile Lahoud to Brazil, in February, Lebanese Foreign Relations Minister Jean Obeid proposed that the summit to take place in Brazil be included in the topics to be discussed, informed to ANBA the adjunct chief of the permanent League of Arab Nations mission, Sayed Torbey.
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – The prime minister of Portugal, José Manuel Durão Barroso, who is visiting Brazil, says that Brazil does not need a gateway into the European community because Brazil is big enough and important enough to deal directly with any country there. But, said Barroso, the Brazilian business community knows that Europe
The Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty) has confirmed the shipping of kits donated by the Health Ministry, as informed by ANBA on Monday (01). The shipping will total 1,143 tonnes of painkillers, antibiotics, and coagulants, among other remedies, sufficient for the treatment of 9,000 people for a period of three months.
Agência Brasil Brasília – Yesterday president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke with George W. Bush of the United States for 15 minutes on the phone. Lula asked Bush to support changes in International Monetary Fund classification of government outlays in productive sectors. Lula wants such outlays to be seen as investments and not expenditures;
