S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Libya\u2019s ambassador to Bras\u00edlia, Osama Sawan, said that trade relations between the two countries have seen improvements following a stagnation during the COVID-19 and a moment of stabilization in Libya.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresidential elections will be held soon, and this is the key factor in the strategic change of the economy in Libya,\u201d Sawan told ANBA during a visit to the headquarters of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) on Tuesday (31).<\/p>\n The diplomat said his country is strategically located and is a link in the region, with a long coast and major ports. Brazil has almost 50 years of diplomatic relations with Libya.<\/p>\n \u201cPresident Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva is a friend of Libya. He has visited the country on several occasions, and we hope Brazil\u2019s embassy will be back to operating in Tripoli instead of Tunisia. Several embassies have returned already,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Sawan sees opportunities for Brazil to import oil and petrochemical products from Libya and export foods, industrialized goods, and raw iron. He believes a major obstacle in trade relations are transport, costs and bureaucracy. Brazilian products now come via Barcelona, Genoa or Dubai.<\/p>\n In 2022, Brazil exported USD 320 million to Libya, mostly poultry, iron ore, and beef. Brazil didn\u2019t post imports from Libya in 2022, but other years saw imports of oil and oil products.<\/p>\n During the visit to the ABBC, the ambassador was accompanied by Libyan Iron & Steel Company (LISCO) chairman Mohamed Abdulmalek. Pictured, Sawan (C) and Abdulmalek (R).<\/em><\/p>\n They were welcomed by ABCC president Osmar Chohfi, International Relations vice president Mohamad Orra Mourad and Institutional Relations analyst Elaine Prates.<\/p>\n Abdulmalek said the Libyan iron and steel company is a major buyer of raw materials from Brazil and plans on start relying on the ABCC\u2019s certification services. The country also mines iron ore in its south region and needs expertise and investments to study the raw material.<\/p>\n Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lyba\u2019s ambassador to Bras\u00edlia, Osama Sawan, visited the headquarters of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber together with Libyan Iron & Steel Company chairman Mohamed Abdulmalek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2305,"featured_media":357108,"comment_status":"closed","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":[46555,106],"tags":[34631,536,20767,2029,32775,6949,2016,1964,46314,11961,15095,3757,46320],"class_list":{"0":"post-358990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diplomacy","8":"category-foreign-affairs","9":"tag-diplomacia-en","10":"tag-diplomacy","11":"tag-iron","12":"tag-iron-ore","13":"tag-libia-en","14":"tag-libya","15":"tag-minerio-de-ferro","16":"tag-oil","17":"tag-osama-sawan","18":"tag-petroleo-ar","19":"tag-relacoes-comerciais","20":"tag-steel","21":"tag-trade-relations"},"wps_subtitle":"Lyba\u2019s ambassador to Bras\u00edlia, Osama Sawan, visited the headquarters of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber together with Libyan Iron & Steel Company chairman Mohamed Abdulmalek.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358990","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=358990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}