The organization’s reform, unstable food prices and biofuel production were some of the issues touched on by the new director-general during his first press conference.
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The former minister received 92 votes of a total of 180 nations voting. Graziano will be in office from January 2012 to July 2015. This is the first time a Brazilian is nominated director general.
The partnership is already in progress. The agreement was signed by the ambassador of Palestine to Brazilian capital Brasília, Ibrahim Azeben, and the mayor of Foz do Iguaçu, Paulo Mac Donald Ghisi.
United States government announces a US$ 14.5 million donation to the World Food Programme to finance the delivery of 65,000 tonnes of Brazilian agricultural commodities in the African country.
Ban Ki-moon will take a tour of Latin America starting next Friday. Aside from Colombia, Argentina and Uruguay, he will visit Brazil and will be received by president Dilma Rousseff.
Participants of the version of the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia highlighted the need for European aid to countries experiencing political crises.
The country is attending the meeting in Kazakhstan as an observer member. The aim, according to the Brazilian foreign ministry, is to promote relations with the Muslim nations.
Diplomatic representation of the Arab country in Brasília makes information available on consular services, economy and trade, tourism, culture, cooperation, among others.
Country wants to collaborate in food security, energy and water management in conflict-ridden nations in the Arab world. The aim is to minimise the eruption of crises in the region.
The Brazilian government will integrate international efforts to seek practical and peaceful solutions for ending the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa.
Abdul Aziz Al Nuaimi, from Ajman, will visit Brazil to discuss environmental projects. He will go to Rio Grande do Sul and Brasília, where he will meet with authorities, businessmen and students.
Landless Rural Workers Movement is going to send 40 volunteers to help the Palestinians harvest olives in October. The movement has had links to the Arab country for nearly ten years now.
Diplomat Yousuf Al Usaimi will head back to his country this week, after having headed the embassy in the Brazilian capital, Brasília, for seven years. During the period, bilateral trade grew by 185%.
Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota visited Egypt and asked for support to the Brazilian candidate for the UN agency for hunger alleviation. He also discussed the political situation in the Arab world.
