{"id":373503,"date":"2024-09-04T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=373503"},"modified":"2024-09-04T15:20:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T18:20:25","slug":"negotiations-between-uae-mercosur-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/negotiations-between-uae-mercosur-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Negotiations between UAE, Mercosur continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Negotiations between the United Arab Emirates and Mercosur for a free trade agreement are ongoing, according to information from Brazil\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided to ANBA. At the bloc\u2019s foreign ministers\u2019 meeting held in Montevideo, Uruguay, last Monday (2), the negotiation with the Arab country was discussed \u201cwithin the broader context of Mercosur\u2019s extra-regional agenda,\u201d according to the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom the Brazilian perspective, the negotiations with the UAE, which have been ongoing regularly since they were launched in April, have progressed satisfactorily among negotiators from both sides,\u201d the ministry reported. Last July, Mercosur countries and the UAE had agreed on the terms of reference for the agreement during a meeting prior to the Mercosur Summit in Asunci\u00f3n, Paraguay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time, the Brazilian government reported that the first round of discussions had taken place, addressing the content that may become the agreement. It was also agreed that the treaty will include, among other topics, goods, services, rules of origin, technical barriers, phytosanitary and sanitary measures, as well as intellectual property. There is an expectation that it will be signed at the end of the year during the G20 meeting in Rio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mercosur&#8217;s f<strong>oreign ministries<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the meeting of foreign ministers, the ministry announced on its <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/itamaratygovbr.bsky.social\/post\/3l36k2y4mqv2u\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bluesky<\/a> account that the Uruguayan pro tempore presidency presented its priorities for the semester, including proposals to strengthen the bloc as an effective platform for international engagement. Discussions covered actions to promote sustainable trade and Mercosur\u2019s negotiations with extra-regional partners. The ministry noted that it was the first ministerial meeting of the bloc with Bolivia as a new member state. Brazil\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs Mauro Vieira participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mercosur-uae-agreement-set-to-conclude-in-november\/\">Mercosur-UAE agreement set to conclude in November<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-373497\">Brazil\u2019s Foreign Ministry<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Brazil\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry, negotiations with the UAE for a free trade agreement have been ongoing regularly since they were launched and were addressed at the Mercosur foreign ministers\u2019 meeting in Montevideo within the broader context of the bloc\u2019s extra-regional agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1455,"featured_media":373497,"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":[9534,28575,3859,50828,2610,9579,50827],"class_list":{"0":"post-373503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-brazil-en","9":"tag-emirados-arabes-unidos-en","10":"tag-free-trade","11":"tag-free-trade-agreements","12":"tag-mercosur","13":"tag-uae-en","14":"tag-uae-mercosur-agreement"},"wps_subtitle":"According to Brazil\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry, negotiations with the UAE for a free trade agreement have been ongoing regularly since they were launched and were addressed at the Mercosur foreign ministers\u2019 meeting in Montevideo within the broader context of the bloc\u2019s extra-regional agenda.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373503","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=373503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}