{"id":47858,"date":"2014-05-07T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/minister-sees-brazil-as-one-of-tunisias-largest-partners\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:04:56","slug":"minister-sees-brazil-as-one-of-tunisias-largest-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/minister-sees-brazil-as-one-of-tunisias-largest-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister sees Brazil as one of Tunisia\u2019s largest partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The minister of Industry, Energy and Mining of Tunisia, Kamel Ben Naceur, visited the <strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> this Tuesday night (6th), in S&atilde;o Paulo, as the last appointment of his two-day visit to Brazil. He had gave a positive assessment of the trip. &ldquo;In the near future we want Brazil to be one of the top ten business partners of Tunisia&rdquo;, he pointed out.<\/p>\n<p><!--[{![cemb_9_703147_2]!}]--><\/p>\n<p>Over the last two days, Naceur went to the opening of the S&atilde;o Paulo State Supermarket Association&rsquo;s (Apas) fair, which has Arab exhibitors, including Tunisians; he also took part in the Forum &ldquo;Brazil-Tunisia Partnership at the Federation of Industries of the State of S&atilde;o Paulo (Fiesp), and had meetings with representatives from the Brazilian mining company Vale and the government of S&atilde;o Paulo.<\/p>\n<p>Naceur is optimistic about the possibility of his country attracting more Brazilian investments. &ldquo;We believe Tunisia has advantages for this model of collaboration&rdquo;, he pointed out. Besides the domestic market, he also cited as attractive the possibility of doing business with other African and European nations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It can bring an opportunity for Brazilian companies to sell to Africa and European Union, through [Tunisia&rsquo;s trade] deals&rdquo;, observed the CEO of the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby.<\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, the cost of doing business in Tunisia is lower than in countries &ldquo;North of the Mediterranean&rdquo;, that is, Europe, and in neighboring nations. He added that this advantage will remain during and after the country&#8217;s political transition.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[We] found a way to have a national dialog that is working and I hope will bring about the elections, but the country&rsquo;s strategy to attract investments and open the economy will not change&rdquo;, he declared.<\/p>\n<p>Naceur also said economic development is one of the demands from the Tunisian population, and one of the ways to reach this goal is to cooperate with other countries.<\/p>\n<p>For the Tunisian ambassador in Brazil, Sabri Bachtobji, the events on Monday and Tuesday are &ldquo;a new step&rdquo; in the relations between the two countries, which now possess &ldquo;a superior level of collaboration&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab Chamber Foreign Trade vice president and honorary consul of Tunisia in S&atilde;o Paulo, Rubens Hannun, added that &ldquo;the moment is most favorable&rdquo; for creating an &ldquo;action plan&rdquo; for Brazil-Tunisia relations. &ldquo;The opportunities will be quite clear&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Rodrigo Mendon&ccedil;a<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-177072\">Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisian Kamel Ben Naceur, head of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining, visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber in the last appointment of his two-day trip to S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":177072,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs"},"wps_subtitle":"Tunisian Kamel Ben Naceur, head of the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining, visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber in the last appointment of his two-day trip to S\u00e3o Paulo.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47858","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\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}