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.
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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.
The Brazilian president Michel Temer sanctioned a law allocating the amount for the country’s payments to the programs and actions of national and international entities such as the UN.
This is the cost estimate made by UNHCR for relief assistance in cold weather to 4.57 million Syrians and Iraqis displaced in their own countries or living as refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) announced it will provide the amount to the UN’s World Food Programme to support Haiti after it was hit by a hurricane.
