The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce plans to work together with Brazil’s new administration to strengthen the country’s relations with the Arab world. The organization wishes to present to President-elect Jair Bolsonaro a study on the potential of increasing trade with the region. “We agree with the new administration’s stance of developing production, the agribusiness, infrastructure, and we want to seize to opportunity to show the potential of the Arab world,” said the Arab Chamber’s president Ruben Hannun. The goal is to present the study during the transition process still, before the new president’s inauguration, in January 1st, 2019. The Arab Chamber estimates that the country’s exports to the region could reach USD 20 billion until 2022, against the USD 13.6 billion registered last year. “As a bloc, the Arab world is the second largest buyer of Brazilian agribusiness products, trailing only China,” added Hannun.
Also a highlight of the ANBA Bulletin of this Monday (05), the Amenemhat Project, led by Brazilian researchers, will return to Egypt to excavate the Theban Tomb 123, in the Luxor necropolis. With the coordination based at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), the researchers will travel on January 10 to begin the program’s third field stage. In addition to the archeological work, the mission will also include an anthropological study. “We will have direct contact with the population. This is an innovation of the Brazilian project. Before, many people from Luxor used the tombs as their homes. In 2006, 10,000 people were removed from the Necropolis in the name of science and tourism, and relocated to another village,” says the project’s coordinator Pellini. “We will be in contact with the population for them to come to the tomb, show us their perspective,” said Pellini.
Read also that 12 Arab countries will take part in the 13th edition of the International Fair of the Embassies on November 10, in Brasília. The event will include cultural, music and art attractions and typical foods.
