{"id":333008,"date":"2023-07-26T19:19:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T22:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/embaixador-paulino-neto-assume-posto-no-cairo-em-agosto\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T22:12:17","slug":"brazils-ambassador-to-egypt-to-take-up-post-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-ambassador-to-egypt-to-take-up-post-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s ambassador to Egypt to take up post in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 As of August 1, diplomat Paulino Franco de Carvalho Neto will take up the post of ambassador of Brazil to <strong>Cairo<\/strong>, the Egyptian capital. Before traveling to the Arab country, Carvalho Neto visited the headquarters of the <strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) in S\u00e3o Paulo and took the opportunity to see his two children who live in the capital of S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n<p>This will be his second post as ambassador. The first was in Luanda, Angola, from 2016 to 2020. After that period, Carvalho Neto was Secretary of Multilateral Political Affairs of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was in charge of <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/lula-invited-el-sisi-to-visit-brazil\/\">Brazilian negotiations during COP27<\/a> in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. \u201c[This work showed that] the Brazilian Foreign Ministry is always ready to work, no matter which government is in charge, our mission is technical and diplomatic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read also:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-appoints-new-ambassador-to-egypt\/\">Brazil appoints new ambassador to Egypt <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Curitiba-born 62-year-old diplomat told ANBA he is in a moment of conversations and learning, in addition to reading, to get to know Egypt and bilateral relations to the fullest. \u201cAs an ambassador, I intend to increase <strong>bilateral trade<\/strong>, and for that, we already have a fundamental instrument, the Mercosur-Egypt free trade agreement,\u201d said Carvalho Neto.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333003\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333003\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-333003 \" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-26-at-17.09.45-600x450.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-26-at-17.09.45-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-26-at-17.09.45-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-26-at-17.09.45-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-26-at-17.09.45-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-26-at-17.09.45-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2023-07-26-at-17.09.45.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333003\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Carvalho Neto (left) with ABCC president Osmar Chohfi<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The two countries already have sound trade relations. Last year, Egypt ranked third among the main Arab buyers of Brazilian goods, behind the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. Brazil exported USD 2.8 billion to the country of the Giza pyramids. The main products were maize, sugar, beef, and iron ore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConcerning political ties, next year we will celebrate <strong>100 years of continuous diplomatic relations<\/strong> between Brazil and independent Egypt, and this could lead to Brazilian authorities traveling to Egypt and Egyptian authorities to Brazil; it will be noteworthy to celebrate this date. Brazil is a very beloved country by Egypt, and Egypt is also a country that attracts a lot of attention from Brazilians due to its millenary history and its importance in the Arab world,\u201d he said. He recalled Egypt has the largest Arab population in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Carvalho Neto wants to intensify trade in agricultural commodities, but not only that. \u201cWe also have the possibility for Brazilian companies to settle in Egypt, making use of the free zones, especially the <strong>Suez Canal<\/strong>, taking advantage of Egypt\u2019s trade agreements with other countries in the region and the European Union, and eventually Brazilian companies could benefit from that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another possibility that caught the ambassador\u2019s attention during his visit to the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) was the production of <strong>tropical wheat<\/strong> in the Midwest of Brazil. \u201cThe production of tropical wheat may be of interest to Egypt, a major importer with a population that consumes bread three times a day,\u201d he said. The ambassador visited Embrapa as part of his preparation to take the post in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding <strong>tourism<\/strong>, the ambassador said he is optimistic and wants to increase the flow of <strong>Brazilians visiting Egypt<\/strong>. \u201cIf you look at the social networks and conversations, Egypt is trending; Brazilians want to visit it. We have the prospect of a <strong>nonstop flight<\/strong> between Guarulhos International Airport and Cairo International Airport, which is expected to start this year. With that, we will have a greater flow of Brazilians going to Cairo, which means the embassy needs to be well-prepared for consular assistance,\u201d he said. For Brazilians, a visa for Egypt can be obtained on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have all the conditions to intensify these economic, political, commercial, diplomatic, and cultural relations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read also:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tickets-for-sao-paulo-cairo-nonstop-flight-to-start-sales\/\">Tickets for S\u00e3o Paulo-Cairo nonstop flight to start sales <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/cairo-sao-paulo-charter-first-step-towards-nonstop-flight\/\">Cairo-S\u00e3o Paulo charter first step towards nonstop flight <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-332996\">Bruna Garcia\/ANBA<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-333003\">Bruna Garcia\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diplomat Paulino Carvalho Neto visited the headquarters of the Arab Brazilian Chamber in S\u00e3o Paulo on Wednesday (26) and spoke to ANBA about his new position in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":332996,"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":[106,101],"tags":[9803,5651,10398,44045,9547,11648,44048,44046,39274,44047],"class_list":{"0":"post-333008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"category-tourism","9":"tag-egypt-en","10":"tag-ambassador","11":"tag-cairo-en","12":"tag-embaixada-do-brasil-no-cairo-en","13":"tag-embaixador-en","14":"tag-embassy-of-brazil-in-cairo","15":"tag-paulino-ambassador-egypt","16":"tag-paulino-embaixador-egito-en","17":"tag-paulino-franco-de-carvalho-neto-en","18":"tag-paulino-franco-de-carvalho-neto-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Diplomat Paulino Carvalho Neto visited the headquarters of the Arab Brazilian Chamber in S\u00e3o Paulo on Wednesday (26) and spoke to ANBA about his new position in Egypt.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333008","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\/2305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}