{"id":359393,"date":"2024-03-20T19:57:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T22:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/brazilian-fm-discusses-investment-in-saudi-arabia\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T17:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T20:00:04","slug":"brazilian-fm-discusses-investment-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-fm-discusses-investment-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian FM discusses investment in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 In the final leg of his visit to the Middle East, Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister Mauro Vieira was welcomed by his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan al Saud on Wednesday (20) in Jeddah, a city located along the Red Sea coast. According to Brazil\u2019s Foreign Ministry, they discussed ways to strengthen trade ties and investments. Saudi Arabia, the Ministry said, \u201chas showed interest in investment projects in Brazil.\u201d <em>(Pictured, Vieira talks with Farham, R.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last year, Saudi Arabia was Brazil\u2019s leading trade partner among both Middle Eastern and Arab countries. Brazil exported USD 3.5 billion worth of goods to Saudi Arabia, particularly food items, and imported USD 3.2 billion, mostly oil and oil products, thus Saudi-Brazil trade reached USD 6.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi state news agency SPA reported that the ministers also discussed ways to boost bilateral and multilateral coordination on issues of \u201ccommon concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before arriving in Jeddah, Vieira visited Ramallah on Sunday, where he met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. He then moved on to Jordan to be welcomed by King Abdullah II. On Tuesday (19), the Brazilian minister met with Lebanon\u2019s Prime Minister Najib Mikati, and other local officials in capital Beirut. Lastly, he visited Saudi Arabia. A shared topic in all meetings was the conflict in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauro Vieira has visited Middle East countries this week and ended his tour through the region with a meeting in Saudi Arabia with Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":358674,"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":[106],"tags":[48137,48224,2774,48225,37954,48104,9595],"class_list":{"0":"post-359393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-gaza-brazils-foreign-ministry","9":"tag-gaza-mauro-vieira-en","10":"tag-gaza-strip","11":"tag-jeddah-mauro-vieira-en","12":"tag-mauro-vieira-en","13":"tag-middle-east-mauro-vieira","14":"tag-saudi-arabia-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Mauro Vieira has visited Middle East countries this week and ended his tour through the region with a meeting in Saudi Arabia with Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359393","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=359393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}