{"id":56663,"date":"2017-03-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/tunisians-coming-to-brazil-for-diplomacy-business\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:03:06","slug":"tunisians-coming-to-brazil-for-diplomacy-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tunisians-coming-to-brazil-for-diplomacy-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisians coming to Brazil for diplomacy, business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Tunisian minister of Foreign Affairs Khemaies Jhinaoui will be in Brazil next April along with a delegation of business executives. The information was made public this Tuesday (14) by the ambassador of Tunisia in Bras&iacute;lia, Mohamed Hedi Soltani, while visiting the offices of the <strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce <\/strong>in S&atilde;o Paulo.<\/p>\n<p><!--[{![cemb_9_712972_2]!}]--><\/p>\n<p>In Bras&iacute;lia, the foreign minister will attend the meeting of the Brazilian-Tunisian Joint Commission, which gathers to discuss the countries&rsquo; interests in different areas, and agreements will be entered into in education, scientific research, sports, economy, trade, and between the countries&rsquo; national libraries. <\/p>\n<p>In S&atilde;o Paulo, the delegation will have a business-oriented schedule including an economic forum, business matchmaking, a meeting of the Brazil-Tunisia Business Council, etc. &ldquo;There will be importers and exporters from several sectors who are interested in the [Brazilian] market,&rdquo; Soltani told ANBA. <\/p>\n<p>Tunisia is particularly interested in drawing foreign investment in, because it needs to create jobs for a large number of unemployed youths with college diplomas. The country has been through a protracted transition to democracy since 2011, but it still struggles with rekindling its economy. <\/p>\n<p>Tunisia is in talks with Brazil for an Agreement on Cooperation and Facilitation of Investments (ACFI), as well as for a trade agreement with the Mercosur. <\/p>\n<p>The ambassador mentioned that Tunisia has sustained an association agreement with the European Union since 1995, and trade agreements with African countries, apart from boasting a good infrastructure for access to neighboring countries, which ensures it a privileged position in those markets. He believes Brazilian companies that make their way into Tunisia could benefit from these treaties. <\/p>\n<p>Soltani has helmed the embassy in Bras&iacute;lia for two months now. He said that before leaving Tunisia, he questioned the minister as to priorities in bilateral relations, to which the minister retorted: &ldquo;The priority is the economy.&rdquo; &ldquo;In other words, trade and investments,&rdquo; the diplomat said, with a special emphasis on investments. <\/p>\n<p>The ambassador also discussed tourism, a key activity for Tunisia&rsquo;s economy that has performed poorly in the past few years. &ldquo;I believe that we may be in for a new beginning this year. There was some recovery last year already,&rdquo; he asserted. Expectations are high regarding European tourists. &ldquo;The premises are good,&rdquo; he added. High season in the Northern Hemisphere happens during the summer. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-190667\">Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Affairs minister Khemaies Jhinaoui is visiting S\u00e3o Paulo and Bras\u00edlia next April alongside a delegation of executives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":190667,"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":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-56663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities"},"wps_subtitle":"Foreign Affairs minister Khemaies Jhinaoui is visiting S\u00e3o Paulo and Bras\u00edlia next April alongside a delegation of executives.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56663","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=56663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}