{"id":367708,"date":"2024-06-04T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=367708"},"modified":"2024-06-04T13:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T16:57:33","slug":"brazil-saudi-arabia-sign-defense-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-saudi-arabia-sign-defense-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil, Saudi Arabia sign defense agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 In an official visit to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Monday (3), Brazilian Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Trade and Services <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/geraldoalckmin\">Geraldo Alckmin<\/a> met with Saudi Minister of Defense Khalid bin Salman. According to information from the vice president\u2019s office, a \u201chighlight\u201d of Alckmin\u2019s appointments in the Arab country was the signing of a draft agreement between the governments of Saudi Arabia and Brazil for cooperation in the field of defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other ministers making up the delegation were Rui Costa (chief of staff), Simone Tebet (planning and budget), Carlos F\u00e1varo (agriculture and livestock), Wellington Dias (social development), M\u00e1rcio Fran\u00e7a (entrepreneurship, microenterprise and small businesses), and Paulo Teixeira (agrarian development), as well as foreign ministry\u2019s secretary-general Maria Laura da Rocha, ApexBrasil president Jorge Viana, and top officials of public institutions and companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-saudi-firms-ink-protocols-in-riyadh\/\">Brazilian, Saudi firms ink protocols in Riyadh<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>F\u00e1varo said in one of the round of talks that Brazil is committed to produce without deforesting and said there are opportunities in the country to invest in converting degraded pastures in productive areas to ensure the \u201cworld-class\u201d production of Brazilian agriculture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Brazil-Saudi Arabia ties<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alckmin, for his part, mentioned statements of Brazilian President Luiz In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva that Saudi Arabia is Brazil\u2019s leading partner in the Middle East. Lula was in Saudi Arabia in late 2023. The trade between the two countries adds up to USD 7 billion, and mutual investments have grown, the vice president\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit to Saudi Arabia, the Brazilian delegation signed other three protocols of intent \u2013 one for promoting Brazilian food and beverage items at LuLu Hypermarket, a major chain in the Middle East, and two investment promotion protocols of intents between private companies. On Tuesday (4), the Brazilian vice president continues to China, where he\u2019ll have appointments with local officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-367664\">Ahmed Ali\/Vice-presid\u00eancia\/Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In meetings in the Arab country, Brazil\u2019s vice president and ministers also presented the Brazilian potential in agriculture and sustainable development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":367664,"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],"tags":[9906,10667,11910,7477,13043,37944,49672,9595,2353],"class_list":{"0":"post-367708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-agribusiness-en","9":"tag-agronegocio-ar","10":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-defesa-ar","13":"tag-geraldo-alckmin-en-2","14":"tag-ministers","15":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","16":"tag-sustainable-development"},"wps_subtitle":"In meetings in the Arab country, Brazil\u2019s vice president and ministers also presented the Brazilian potential in agriculture and sustainable development.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367708","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=367708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}