The bloc announced further measures against the country to pressure president Bashar Al Assad to end repression of protests. Last Sunday, the Arab League approved sanctions against Syria.
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The Brazilian president will attend the Africa-South America Summit in May 2012. She will champion sustainable development coupled with social inclusion.
The organization has set a one-day deadline for the Syrian government to sign a protocol allowing observers to enter the country.
On meeting with Michel Temer in Beirut, Lebanese president Michel Sleiman invited Dilma Rousseff to visit the country. Temer, of Lebanese descent, was welcomed to his ancestors’ land with a party.
The ambassador of Palestine to Brasília stated that the country, in which Arabs and Jews live in peace, is a ‘balanced player’ in talks between Palestine and Israel.
At a meeting in Morocco, representatives of Arab countries took the decision due to accounts of government violence against the opposition.
Brazilian navy frigate União docked into Beirut Port. It should be part of the Unifil fleet, the UN peace force in the Arab country.
Brazilian VP Michel Temer will be in the Arab country from November 18 to 23. He will meet with the president and the prime minister, and visit the frigate União, of the UN peacekeeping operations.
The funds will be used by the UN agency to feed malnourished children in Somalia.
The economist Alaa Eldin Hussien Aly has just taken office in São Paulo. His main mission will be to promote Egyptian exports to Brazil.
Distribution centre in the Emirates should help Unicef distribute food rapidly to undernourished children in the Horn of Africa.
In Cannes, France, the Brazilian president stated that the UN’s conference in Rio will be an opportunity to ‘address the development model nations want for their future.’
The Brazilian Cooperation Agency signed a memorandum of understanding with the founder of Microsoft’s charity. The aim is to help African and South Asian countries increase agricultural productivity.
Abdel Al-Kib has been appointed as the head of the country’s provisional government.
