Venezuelan ambassador to Cairo, Wilmer Barrientos Fernández, talked to businesspeople from Egypt earlier this week on the changes in his country towards economic diversification. He praised the work of the Arab Brazilian Chamber in favor of Arab-Brazilian relations.

The Brazilian Association of Animal Protein released a note regretting Japan’s decision to suspend purchases of poultry from the state of Espírito Santo, where avian influenza was detected in a backyard plant. ABPA informed Brazilian industrial poultry plants remain free of any cases of the disease.