National Committee for Refugees (Conare) approved the extension of special regime for two more years. More than two thousand Syrians received asylum from Brazil.
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According to the United Nations undersecretary general, nations in the region are overwhelmed by refugee influx and require more financial aid.
Heightening exports and imports was the topic of meetings between the Brazilian foreign minister Mauro Vieira and local authorities in his visit to Lebanon.
Rula Maayaa Albandak, Palestine’s minister of Tourism, will visit the country this month to promote Palestine’s main destinations to businessmen and authorities from the sector. She will also attend a fair in São Paulo.
Mauro Vieira will go through an official schedule in the Arab country. This Monday, he took part in a ceremony with Navy officers that rescued refugees in the Mediterranean Sea.
Roberto Abdalla takes office as Brazilian ambassador in Doha on September 23rd, tasked with taking relations between the two nations to a new level. A Qatari mission is set to arrive in Brazil in November.
The Summit of South American-Arab Countries will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in November. The Arab League asked for the support of the Arab Chamber in talks with the private sector.
The goal is to promote closer ties between the countries’ legislative powers. The same project will be developed with Georgia.
The Brazilian Ministry of Justice is holding a meeting to discuss solutions for peace between Israel and Palestine from Thursday (27th) to Sunday (30th) in São Paulo and Rio.
According to the Department of State, the country should receive 2,000 people this year and from 5,000 to 8,000 in 2016.
The Security Council believes that the situation in the south of the country, along the Israeli border, still represents a threat to peace and security.
Representatives of the organization denounced the destruction of 22 building by Israeli authorities and the forced evictions of 78 Palestinians, including 49 children.
Until August, 8,400 people received refuge in the country. The Ministry of Justice reinforced the agency that analyses the requests, decentralized interviews and increased the number of staff.
At least US$ 1.6 billion is necessary to attend to 21 million people that need some kind of help due to the ongoing conflict in the country.
