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.
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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.
Governments and leaders offer support to the creation of a new political regime in Libya, after the death of Muammar Gaddafi. They call for overcoming differences and creating national unity.
World leaders reacted to Gaddafi’s death by sending messages of support to a democratic process in the Arab country, which has endured eight months of conflict.
The statement is by the minister of Foreign Relations, Antonio Patriota, who is accompanying president Dilma Rousseff in her trip to Africa.
A social project promoted through a partnership between the UN and company Emdoc should help refugees settled in Brazil to find work in their fields.
During the summit of the Ibsa, which comprises India, Brazil and South Africa, in Pretoria, the Brazilian president condemned repression in Syria and the armed intervention in Libya.
Delegations met in Ramallah, West Bank, and set a goal of signing a free trade agreement by the South American bloc’s upcoming summit, due late this year in Montevideo.
The Brazilian minister of Tourism, Gastão Vieira, claimed that the matter is under study. The first to benefit will be North Americans, Canadians and Mexicans.
