Starting this month, new diplomats will be inaugurated at the Brazilian embassies in Doha, Qatar, Amman, Jordan, Cairo, Egypt, and Baghdad, Iraq.
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The United States will donate US$ 55 million to a United Nations agency. Still, the sum is much lower than last year’s nearly US$ 250 million.
The new director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization will visit the continent this month and claims that the institution will be less centralized during his term.
The Brazilian intends to boost food security. The organization informs that 925 million people are plagued by hunger worldwide.
The United Nations will have US$ 5.15 billion over the next two years, 5% less than the revenues in the previous cycle. The reason is the crisis in developed nations, the main contributors.
To the country’s ambassador to the United Nations, the method used in two years in the Security Council was fundamental for peaceful processes, like that for independence of South Sudan.
Cesário Melantonio Neto, the ambassador to Cairo, will become special envoy to the region, including Turkey and Iran, in January. His work will be based on the defence of dialogue.
To the Palestinian Foreign Relations minister, Mercosur treaty may open the doors to Arab, European and North American markets for companies from the bloc that establish themselves in his country.
Free trade treaty was signed this Tuesday (20th) by the Palestinian Foreign Relations minister Riyad Al-Malki, who met with his counterparts from Mercosur member countries in Uruguay.
Presidents of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay will meet next Tuesday (20th) at the Mercosur Summit to discuss increasing the Common External Tariff on a list of 100 to 200 products.
The two parties have promised to sign a free trade treaty at the summit of the South American bloc in Montevideo, Uruguay. Palestinians are seeking the recognition of the state at the UN.
Dilma said she will "grant special attention" to the Arab region of the continent next year. Latin America and Africa are going to continue as priorities for Brazilian foreign policy.
The US$ 7.5 million donation is the largest the country has ever made to the UN organisation that takes care of Palestinian refugees. Another US$ 960,000 will be turned to feeding and education.
The offices will be opened in early 2012. The announcement was made on Thursday (15) by José Graziano, the new director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
