{"id":329209,"date":"2023-05-09T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-09T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=329209"},"modified":"2023-05-10T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T19:43:45","slug":"libyans-look-to-restore-ties-with-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/libyans-look-to-restore-ties-with-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Libyans look to restore ties with Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Libyan authorities told Brazil Africa Institute (IBRAF) <\/strong>president Jo\u00e3o Bosco Monte they want to resume talks with Brazil and restore ties with the Latin American country. Libya went through a revolution in 2011 and is now governed by two rival political forces, one from its capital Tripoli and the other from the city of Benghazi in the East of the country.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Bosco (L) and Eshawish (R): meeting in Tripoli<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Brazil\u2019s Bosco Monte visited Libya last week and was welcomed by authorities and ministers based in Tripoli, including Agriculture & Livestock deputy minister Muhammad Al-Turki (opening picture)<\/em> Authority for Investment Promotion president Abdulaziz Eshawish.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the revolution, talks have slowed down, and in a very pragmatic manner, I intended to restore the ties Brazil had with Libya for a while,\u201d said Bosco Monte, who went to the country to promote the Brazil Africa Forum the institution will hold in S\u00e3o Paulo from October 31 to November 1st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Before the revolution, Brazil had an established relation with Libya. President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva traveled to Libya in both his first and second term, and the Libya government sent several senior officials to Brazil in the 2000s. Brazil used to have an ambassador in Tripoli, and Brazilian construction firms operated in the country.<\/p>\n

Exports from Brazil to Libya spiked from USD 35.1 million in 2001 to USD 456 million in 2010, shrinking to USD 141.4 million in 2016, and returning to higher levels last year, at USD 320 million. Brazil\u2019s embassy in Tripoli was transferred to Tunis, Tunisia, in 2012, for security reasons.<\/p>\n

Bosco Monte met with Libya economy, agriculture, investment and transport officials. \u201cThey were all willing to talk and resume talks with Brazil,\u201d he said, adding that Libyans preserve the memory of the relation Brazil used to have with their country.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Bosco Monte visited Libya and Tunisia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The IBRAF\u2019s president sees several paths for the rapprochement with Libya, including a Brazilian participation in the Arab country\u2019s infrastructure agenda and agricultural cooperation. In agriculture, he received demands for training people, seed production and improvement, and product transformation for adding value. Bosco Monte also noticed a desire from Libya authorities for their country to be a catalyst for Brazil\u2019s trade with the region.<\/p>\n

Bosco Monte said his meetings were intended to foster Brazil-Libya ties. He points out that not only Brazil but other countries have also drifted away from Libya and are now reconnecting. \u201cI heard from many that the Brazilian brand is a relevant brand, and I believe this is the driver we need to use to reclaim our space, the agenda we used to have there and have lost since. If we don\u2019t do it, others will,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said he saw a city of Tripoli that\u2019s very different from what the press shows. \u201cBrazil and other countries are letting themselves believe in this narrative that Libya is an unsafe place, with no capacity for investment. On the contrary, it\u2019s a rather very capitalized country with reserves that can easily be used as collateral for transactions,\u201d he told ANBA. Bosco Monte explained, however, he refers to the opportunities, and not only the country\u2019s domestic political issue.<\/p>\n

Talks with Tunisians<\/strong><\/p>\n

The IBRAF\u2019s president was also in Tunisia with the purpose of rapprochement and promoting the Brazil Africa Forum, and he saw in the country the intention to attract Brazilian investments and cooperation for technical training in agriculture. He said he visited a deactivated sugar plant that can be a processing opportunity for Brazilians. Bosco Monte also met representatives of the Islamic Development Bank.<\/p>\n

Bosco Monte believes there\u2019re good expectations for Brazil-Africa relations and points out that both Brazilian Foreign minister Mauro Vieira and Celso Amorim (former Foreign minister and current chief advisor of the Presidency of Brazil) and president Lula have argued for a rapprochement with the African continent.<\/p>\n

He believes the leading theme of the Brazil Africa Forum \u2014 trade \u2014 is a good agenda as any for this rapprochement. The topic of the meeting will be \u201cTrade, Investment and Development: Brazil and Africa engaging with the World.\u201d Speakers already listed on the event\u2019s website include Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) CEO & secretary-general Tamer Mansour and Brazil\u2019s former Foreign minister Celso Amorim.<\/p>\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda <\/strong><\/p>\n

Supplied\/IBRAF<\/div>\n
Supplied\/IBRAF<\/div>\n
Supplied\/IBRAF<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tripoli-based authorities had meetings last week with Brazil Africa Institute president Jo\u00e3o Bosco Monte and expressed the desire to revive the relations their country once had with Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":329199,"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":[11216,11217,41610,37123,12605,41616,34331,32775,6949,41608,41609,41611,41612,41613,41614,41615],"class_list":{"0":"post-329209","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"category-news","9":"tag-brazil-africa-forum","10":"tag-brazil-africa-institute","11":"tag-brazilians-in-libya","12":"tag-forum-brasil-africa-en","13":"tag-instituto-brasil-africa-ar","14":"tag-joao-bosco-ibraf-en","15":"tag-joao-bosco-monte-en","16":"tag-libia-en","17":"tag-libya","18":"tag-libya-agriculture","19":"tag-libya-brazil","20":"tag-libya-construction","21":"tag-libya-cooperation","22":"tag-libya-economy","23":"tag-libya-opportunities","24":"tag-libya-politics"},"wps_subtitle":"Tripoli-based authorities had meetings last week with Brazil Africa Institute president Jo\u00e3o Bosco Monte and expressed the desire to revive the relations their country once had with Brazil.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329209","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=329209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}