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.
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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.
UN is launching the International Year of Cooperatives to promote the practice among small farmers to fight hunger. In Brazil, cooperative affiliates generated 37.2% of the agricultural GDP in 2009.
The UN agency awarded full membership to the country with 107 votes in favour, 14 votes against, and 52 abstentions. Palestinians are seeking full recognition of their state.
The Security Council passed a resolution lifting the authorization for Nato operations in the country.
Heads of the Trade Promotion departments at the Brazilian embassies in the Middle East should meet next week, in Doha, to discuss means to strengthen trade in the region.
The More Food program, developed in the country since 2008, is now open to nations in Africa. The objective is to help nations in the continent to reach food sovereignty.
The National Transitional Council of Egypt called for the organisation to remain in the country up to late November.
The country will take a non-permanent seat for two years starting on January 1, 2012.
