{"id":211780,"date":"2019-04-02T19:54:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T22:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=211780"},"modified":"2019-06-30T11:39:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T14:39:55","slug":"brazils-agriculture-minister-extols-trade-with-arab-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-agriculture-minister-extols-trade-with-arab-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Agriculture minister extols trade with Arab world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil\u2019s minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Tereza Cristina, gave an emphatic speech this Tuesday (2) in defense of Brazil\u2019s relations with Arab and Muslim countries, after president Jair Bolsonaro announced the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/office-in-jerusalem-creates-an-imbalance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">opening of a trade office in Jerusalem<\/a>\u00a0to work on deals with Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Cristina was quoted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agricultura.gov.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ministry<\/a> statement as saying Brazil is friends with all Arab and Muslim nations, and that she will keep working hard to sustain good ties and broaden cooperation for trade. She also said she\u2019ll meet with ambassadors from those countries next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will keep working towards that good understanding, those good relations with Arabs, with Muslims, whom we are greatly pleased to engage in trade relations with,\u201d the minister was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>However, Cristina admitted that the Arab countries were displeased with this office in Jerusalem. The sovereignty over the city is disputed between Israel and Palestine, which is an Arab country, and Bolsonaro\u2019s decision goes against Brazilian traditional position over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must be prepared for everything. I think this business office is a compromise, not an embassy there. We know about the animosity in the region, but Brazil is friendly with every country, and in the commercial area we have a great importance in the Arab world, the Islamic world. We must continue these conversations,\u201d stressed the minister, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>Cristina concluded, \u201cFor me, as minister and part of the productive sector, a supporter of this relation, we will keep making our trade cooperation with the Arab world bigger and stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda &amp; Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-211775\">Mateus Bonomi\/AGIF\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tereza Cristina said Brazil is a friend to the region\u2019s nations, and that she will work hard to sustain and enhance relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":211775,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[2770,5809,1767,1983,6515,15788],"class_list":{"0":"post-211780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-jair-bolsonaro","10":"tag-jerusalem","11":"tag-ministry-of-agriculture","12":"tag-tereza-cristina","13":"tag-tereza-cristina-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Tereza Cristina said Brazil is a friend to the region\u2019s nations, and that she will work hard to sustain and enhance relations. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}