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| BRASILIA – Between 2010 and 2011, bilateral trade between Brazil and Libya fell from $557.6 million to $102.6 million U.S. dollars – a reduction of over 80%. Brasilia now seeks to evaluate the commercial, social and economic impact to the country of the Arab Spring uprisings.
Lula and Gaddafi (File Photo: farmlandgrab.org)
Numbers like these, which deal with the commercial relationship between Brazil and Arab countries involved in open rebellion against governments – some of which Brasilia has cultivated close relationships with – will be discussed tomorrow at a meeting between Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota and Brazilian ambassadors to North Africa and the Middle East, according to Flávia Foreque, writing for Folha de S. Paulo.
The intention is to measure how the wave of rebellions, which started in 2010 and has led to the departure of several dictators in power for decades, hit trade and political relations between Brazil and countries in the region. Between 2010 and 2011, for example, bilateral trade between Brazil and Yemen fell 26.1%.
According to a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tovar Nunes, the meeting is to discuss, among other measures, analysis of the need for government and business leaders to visit the countries in question. The Foreign Ministry asked the ambassadors for an inventory of the landscape of the domestic situation and an assessment about how Brazil is seen by both governments and local societies.
Patriota will also meet with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who will give a speech to the Brazilian ambassadors.
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