On October 4, vessel with a crew of up to 300 will join the fleet of the United Nations in the Arab country. The mission is headed by a Brazilian official.
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The former Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva received the Lech Walesa Award, in Poland, and stated that he will donate the US$ 100,000 prize to a nation in Africa.
In a meeting between Arab Foreign ministers and the Foreign Minister of Brazil, Antonio Patriota, topics discussed included food safety and possible agricultural cooperation between the nations.
The European Parliament ratified an agreement signed with the PNA that opens up the continent’s market to agricultural and fishery products from the occupied territories.
The president of the Palestinian National Authority submitted a formal request for recognition of the state to the secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.
The Summit of South American-Arab Countries (Aspa) should have taken place earlier this year, but was suspended due to the Arab Spring.
Dilma Rousseff stated that the recognition of their state is a legitimate wish of Palestinians and is crucial to achieving peace in the region. She also criticized repression of Arab protests.
On addressing the 66th Assembly General of the UN, in New York, Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said that the global crisis is economic, of governance and of political coordination, simultaneously.
To the dean of the Council of Arab Ambassadors to Brazil, Ramez Goussous, frustration in the economic area triggered a ‘political awakening’ in the region. He gave a talk to students at Faap college.
Meetings between members of the Mixed Bilateral Committee had been suspended since the Gulf War. They should return in October. The group should discuss relations between both countries.
The governor of the Bank stated that the country needs US$ 4 billion.
The NTC has been considered the temporary and legitimate government of the Arab country.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East needs the amount to keep its emergency programs in the Gaza Strip, including food supplies to the poorest.
Representatives of 12 African countries will take a course at the Itamaraty Palace in Rio. The aim is to establish closer ties between African and Brazilian diplomacy. Sudan will participate.
