It’s the amount needed to be able to offer humanitarian aid to people displaced by the conflict in Syria and to the neighboring countries.
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Camilo Santana was in Oman, where he visited the Sohar Port, and in the United Arab Emirates, where he got to know the world’s largest desalinization plant in Dubai.
The United States partially lifted the trade embargo placed on the Arab country in 1997. To Khalid Mustafa, counsellor of the Sudanese embassy in Brasília, the end of sanctions could increase trade and investment flows with Brazil.
Camilo Santana will visit the Port of Sohar, in Oman, and a desalination plant at the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai. The purpose of the trip is to get to know operations that could be adopted by the Brazilian state.
Brazilian government sent BRL 1.2 million (USD 367,200) for the purchase of food in the Arab country, South Sudan and Haiti. The funds come from the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC).
A decree signed by city mayor Fernando Haddad outlines measures to be put in place by municipal secretariats to improve foreigners’ lives. Nine different secretariats will be involved.
The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution on the matter by unanimous decision. Observers will be shipped to the Syrian city.
Following its approval in a Brazilian Chamber of Deputies plenary session, the bill will be voted in the Senate. It will replace the Statute of Foreigners in setting forth immigrant rights and duties.
The record-breaking figure is needed in order to provide assistance to 93 million people around the world in 2017.
The UAE and France announced the creation of a USD 100 million fund for UNESCO. The goal is to save cultural heritage within conflict areas.
The lawyer from São Paulo Edgard Raoul spent six months in Europe and the Middle East helping people and also living as a war refugee. The experience changed his conceptions on Arabs and Muslims.
Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce Foreign Trade vice president Rubens Hannun, discussed the Muslim market to students taking the course ‘The Islamic World,’ at the Foreign Ministry’s school for diplomats.
The Brazilian government has requested consultations regarding the United States’ overtaxing of imports of steel made in Brazil.
Agreement prevents taxes from being levied on investments in both the source and destination countries.
