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President Lula will be in Japan during the G7 summit. Finance minister Fernando Haddad will join the discussions next week. The forum consists of the world’s seven major industrialized countries.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who will arrive in the United Arab Emirates this Saturday (15), made his first official visit to the Arab country in 2003, when he met then president, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, considered the founding father of the nation.

The Commercial Section of the Embassy of Brazil in Cairo has a new head, Fernando Bastos. He visited the headquarters of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce in the Egyptian capital to discuss joint cooperation actions for Brazil-Egypt trade.

Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce secretary-general & CEO Tamer Mansour is part of the group accompanying the Brazilian federal government delegation on a trip to China headed by the minister of Agriculture. President Lula canceled his participation due to health issues. The schedule in the UAE was withdrawn.

Diplomat Márcio Fagundes do Nascimento will take over the embassy of Brazil in Amman in June. On Tuesday (21) he was welcomed by Arab Brazilian Chamber leaders and talked to ANBA about Jordan’s role as a reference for Brazil in Middle Eastern affairs.