{"id":404186,"date":"2026-03-05T14:08:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=404186"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:08:53","slug":"brazils-fm-speaks-with-arab-counterparts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-fm-speaks-with-arab-counterparts\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s FM speaks with Arab counterparts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 In a series of phone calls with ministers from Arab countries affected by the Iran\u2013United States\u2013Israel conflict, Brazil\u2019s foreign minister, Mauro Vieira, discussed the situation in the Middle East and the Brazilian community in those countries. In statements, Brazilian embassies in the Gulf said the government is in talks with Arab countries on ways to allow its citizens to leave the affected areas. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/brasil.nos.emirados\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brazilian Embassy in Abu Dhabi<\/a> said on its social media that Brazilian nationals may obtain emergency transit visas to Saudi Arabia, whose airspace remains open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Brazil\u2019s foreign ministry, Mauro Vieira has in recent days spoken with Bahrain\u2019s foreign minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, the United Arab Emirates\u2019 foreign minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Kuwait\u2019s new foreign minister Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and Jordan\u2019s foreign minister Ayman Safadi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The situation of the conflict between the US and Israel against Iran and that of Brazilians in the affected countries was a common topic in all the conversations. With the UAE\u2019s Al Nahyan, Vieira also discussed the free trade agreement the country is negotiating with Mercosur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazilian citizens were directly affected by the conflict because they were unable to leave the impacted countries by air. Arab governments were not involved in the strikes against Iran, but their countries became targets of retaliatory attacks. In addition to the UAE, Qatar also closed its airspace to commercial flights. On Wednesday (4), an Emirates aircraft brought Brazilians who had been in the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the conflict, Brazil\u2019s foreign ministry has also issued statements condemning the hostilities and attacks and advising Brazilians to avoid travel to Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Saudi Arabia, in addition to Iran and Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Brazil\u2019s foreign ministry condemned the exchange of attacks between the Hezbollah group in Lebanon and Israeli forces against Lebanese territory, \u201cincluding the Beirut area.\u201d According to the ministry, there were no reports of Brazilian nationals among the victims of the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-brazilian-chamber-were-ready-to-help\/\">Arab-Brazilian Chamber: \u201cWe\u2019re ready to help\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In phone calls with ministers from countries affected by the conflict, Mauro Vieira discussed the situation of Brazilians, who may obtain emergency transit visas in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":404174,"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":[3971,9534,7486,26994,27299,10161,2810,48585,9595,9579,2166],"class_list":{"0":"post-404186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"tag-bahrain","9":"tag-brazil-en","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-emirates-en-3","12":"tag-foreign-affairs","13":"tag-gulf-en","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-lebanon-2","16":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","17":"tag-uae-en","18":"tag-united-states"},"wps_subtitle":"In phone calls with ministers from countries affected by the conflict, Mauro Vieira discussed the situation of Brazilians, who may obtain emergency transit visas in Saudi Arabia.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404186","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=404186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}