{"id":256277,"date":"2019-09-06T17:54:28","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T20:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=256277"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:42:42","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T11:42:42","slug":"arab-chamber-supports-model-un-in-sao-paulo-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-chamber-supports-model-un-in-sao-paulo-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab Chamber supports Model UN in S\u00e3o Paulo University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 This year\u2019s edition of the Model United Nations at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (<a href=\"https:\/\/uspmun.com.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USPMUN<\/a>) began on Thursday (5). The event\u2019s intended to spread best practices in negotiation, knowledge and academic content on international relations, politics, diplomacy, law, economics, oratory, and conflict management. USPMUN will continue through Sunday (8), and over 400 students from 10 Brazilian states and eight countries are expected to join in.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second edition with backing from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>. Ambassador and Arab Chamber International Relations vice president Osmar Chohfi joined the opening ceremony and sat in a panel to discuss the economic scenario in the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on Islamic economy. The panel lasted an hour and a half. Chohfi spoke for some 30 minutes, followed by a conversation with 16 students from universities in different countries. Pictured is Chohfi (R) and Leonardo Racy, one of the event\u2019s organizers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave a presentation on aspects of the region\u2019s economic and social scenario, with an emphasis on the economic outlook for 2019 and 2020,\u201d said Chohfi. He discussed aspects of Brazilian-Arab trade relations and the relevance of food security in those relations. At the participants\u2019 request, he went over the position of Middle East and North Africa countries in a broader international context. \u201cThe participants in this panel showed great interest in Brazilian-Arab relations,\u201d said Chohfi.<\/p>\n<p>About 250 university students from across Brazil flocked to Largo S\u00e3o Francisco in downtown S\u00e3o Paulo, where the USP Law School is located. For his opening speech, the ambassador \u2013 who\u2019s an alumnus \u2013 discussed the importance of Brazil\u2019s economic and commercial ties with the Arab world. \u201cThis event is extraordinarily significant, because it demonstrates the students\u2019 interest in Brazil\u2019s International Relations, their knowledge of the international scenario, and the role Brazil plays in the current scenario,\u201d said Chohfi.<\/p>\n<p>The remainder of USPMUN will take place at the USP School of Economics and Administration (FEA-USP) at the Cidade Universit\u00e1ria campus in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-256241\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador and Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce International Relations vice president Osmar Chohfi sat in as a guest in a panel on the Middle East and North Africa during an event at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":256241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[11127,11128,11113,11130,11131,3777,11129],"class_list":{"0":"post-256277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-fea-en","9":"tag-fea-usp-en","10":"tag-largo-sao-francisco","11":"tag-largo-sao-francisco-en","12":"tag-osmar-chohfi-en","13":"tag-united-nations","14":"tag-uspmun-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Ambassador and Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce International Relations vice president Osmar Chohfi sat in as a guest in a panel on the Middle East and North Africa during an event at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo on Thursday.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256277","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=256277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}