Journalist Tawakkul Karman is sharing the Nobel peace prize with two Africans, Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and activist Leymah Gbowee. The decision was announced on Friday morning.
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Frigate União sailed on Wednesday with a crew of around 300. The men and vessel should become part of the United Nations peace mission to the Arab country.
The executive body is favourable to Palestine’s becoming a full member of the UN agency. The United States oppose this move as well. The final vote will take place on the 25th.
Diplomats are in the state of Amazonas to contact government officials and businessmen. They met with the governor, visited the Manaus Free Trade Zone and the federation of industries.
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.
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.
