{"id":314690,"date":"2022-07-06T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T12:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=314690"},"modified":"2022-07-07T12:10:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T15:10:56","slug":"south-american-chambers-sign-joint-declaration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/south-american-chambers-sign-joint-declaration\/","title":{"rendered":"South American chambers sign joint declaration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Representatives of Arab <strong>chambers of commerce<\/strong> in <strong>South America<\/strong> signed Tuesday (5) a letter of intent to work together for the development of these institutions. The group met at the headquarters of the <strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) one day after its Economic Forum Brazil &amp; Arab Countries and in the presence of the Union of Arab Chambers secretary-general <strong>Khaled Hanafy<\/strong>. <em>Pictured above, leaders of the entities after signing.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_314666\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314666\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-4.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-314668 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-4-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-4-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-4-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-4-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-4-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-4.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Representatives of chambers and the Union of Arab Chambers met in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The letter declares the intent to increase the rapprochement between the chambers for the benefit of the economic and trade relations between Arab and South American countries, create contacts of common interest and joint activities in the chambers\u2019 areas of expertise, hold seminars and meetings in the interests of the Arab-South American relations, and carry out joint market studies.<\/p>\n<p>The document also declares the entities\u2019 intent to hold discussions with authorities of their countries and the Arab countries to facilitate and boost Arab-South American trade, cooperate in the capacity-building and strengthening of their institutional frameworks and human resources, and perform other bilateral or multilateral cooperation and coordination activities deemed appropriate<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_314671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314671\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-314671 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/america-3-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Discussion of common agendas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The group discussed a multi-step work agenda in order to put the rapprochement into motion with activities to be held later this year. Presented by ABCC Institutional Relations director Fernanda Baltazar, the agenda received suggestions and is expected to include regular meetings of the group.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Hanafy, ABCC president Osmar Chohfi and secretary-general Tamer Mansour, Arab <strong>Colombian<\/strong> Chamber of Commerce president Cecilia Porras, Arab<strong> Peruvian<\/strong> Chamber of Commerce president Hamed Abou Zahr, and <strong>Chilearab<\/strong>\u00a0Consulting executive director Jorge Daccarett attended the meeting in person.<\/p>\n<p>Arab <strong>Paraguayan<\/strong> Chamber of Commerce and Industry head Salem Ismail, Arab <strong>Argentine <\/strong>Chamber of Commerce secretary-general Walid Al Kaddour and other representatives and executives of the entities involved attended, too. Arab <strong>Uruguayan <\/strong>Chamber of Commerce<strong> CEO <\/strong>Mart\u00edn Cou\u00f1ago participated on-line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-314665\">Isaura Daniel\/ANBA<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-314671\">Rodrigo Rodrigues\/Arab Brazilian Chambers<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of South American entities signed a letter of intent to work together for the development of the chambers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":314665,"comment_status":"closed","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":[91,114],"tags":[29840,9673,32970,4639,5908,32971],"class_list":{"0":"post-314690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"category-news","9":"tag-america-do-sul-en","10":"tag-arab-brazilian-chamber-en","11":"tag-arab-chambers","12":"tag-camara-arabe-en","13":"tag-south-america","14":"tag-south-american-chambers"},"wps_subtitle":"Representatives of South American entities signed a letter of intent to work together for the development of the chambers.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314690","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\/1455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}