{"id":58336,"date":"2017-09-27T18:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/arab-african-forum-begins-in-amman\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T12:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T15:01:41","slug":"arab-african-forum-begins-in-amman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/arab-african-forum-begins-in-amman\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab-African Forum begins in Amman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amman &ndash; Began this Wednesday (27), under the topic Partnership Roadmap and Financing Mechanisms, the Arab-African Economic Forum, the business meeting organized by the General Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, of which the <strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> is part of.<\/p>\n<p>According to information by news agency <em>Jordan News Agency (Petra)<\/em>, Jordan&rsquo;s minister of Investment, Muhannad Shihadeh, invited the participants to contribute with ideas to expand business and partnerships between the Arab countries and the African continent. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s great potential to expand relation between the Middle East and the African markets, especially in the agribusiness, food products and services sectors,&rdquo; he said to international news agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Shihadeh added that Jordan continues to be a safe place to business, despite the instability of neighboring countries. &ldquo;Jordan&rsquo;s trade agreements with global economic blocs allowed it to reach 1 billion consumers throughout the world and the Kingdom became a regional center to many companies,&rdquo; said Shihadeh to <em>Petra<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Focused on discussions about the development of the economy, investments and the strengthening of trade between the countries from the two regions, the Arab-African Economic Forum gathers around 500 participants from 54 countries, among Africa, Arabs and others &ndash; such as Brazil, represented by the Arab Chamber&rsquo;s president, Rubens Hannun, vice president of Foreign Relations, Osmar Chohfi, and the special projects advisors, Tamer Mansour. They attended the first day of the conference, which continues this Thursday. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting, organized by the General Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, discusses business opportunities between countries from both regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":0,"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-58336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-opportunities"},"wps_subtitle":"The meeting, organized by the General Union of Arab Chambers of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture, discusses business opportunities between countries from both regions.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58336","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=58336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}