{"id":395148,"date":"2025-09-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=395148"},"modified":"2025-10-30T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:30:09","slug":"brazils-independence-day-celebrated-in-oman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-independence-day-celebrated-in-oman\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s Independence Day celebrated in Oman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/embassyofbrazil.muscat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazilian Embassy in Muscat<\/a>, Oman, held an event on Monday (8) to celebrate Brazil\u2019s Independence Day, observed on September 7. The gathering was attended by around 200 people, including Omani businesspeople and politicians, in a delegation led by the Minister of Energy and Minerals, Salim bin Nasser bin Said Al Aufi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The host of the event, Brazil\u2019s ambassador to Muscat, Alfredo Leoni, said the occasion marked Brazil\u2019s 203<sup>rd<\/sup> Independence Day. In a conversation with the head of the <strong>Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/ccab.org.br\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABCC<\/a>) office in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Rafael Solimeo, Leoni noted the two countries have maintained diplomatic relations for 51 years, highlighting the \u201ccoincidence of thinking alike.\u201d The ABCC was also represented by the Dubai office\u2019s commercial coordinator Noury Dweidary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leoni also noted that Brazilian miner Vale has an iron ore processing and export unit in the Sohar industrial, free-trade, and port zone, which receives ore from Brazil and re-exports it to various countries. He remarked that Vale is \u201cextremely important\u201d for Brazil and has also become significant for Oman due to its presence in the Gulf country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis brings our bilateral trade to over USD 2 billion, which is a significant amount, and Vale plays a very positive role in terms of relations with local authorities and the local business community,\u201d he said. \u201cOmanis are paying more and more attention to Brazil, and vice versa,\u201d the diplomat added. According to Solimeo, company representatives at the event included Vale\u2019s and Embraer\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-brazilian-chamber-aims-to-expand-ties-in-oman\/\">Arab-Brazilian Chamber aims to expand ties in Oman<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/oman-the-new-gem-of-investment-in-the-middle-east\/\">Oman: The new gem of investment in the Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-395141\">Supplied<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event, hosted by the Brazilian embassy, was held at a hotel in the Gulf country\u2019s capital, Muscat, and brought together local politicians and business representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":395141,"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":[106,114],"tags":[48478,22644,9534,12328,34852,34846,19412,2030,50477,44168],"class_list":{"0":"post-395148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"category-news","9":"tag-arab-brazilian-chamber-of-commerce-2","10":"tag-brasil-en-2","11":"tag-brazil-en","12":"tag-embraer-en","13":"tag-independence","14":"tag-independencia-en","15":"tag-oma-en-2","16":"tag-oman","17":"tag-sohar-2","18":"tag-vale-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"The event, hosted by the Brazilian embassy, was held at a hotel in the Gulf country\u2019s capital, Muscat, and brought together local politicians and business representatives.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395148","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=395148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}