Arab- Latin summit discusses development, poverty issues
Regional-Latin America, Politics, 5/9/2005

The Arab states are discussing with their Latin American peers during a summit in Brazil on Tuesday and Wednesday means of enhancing joint trade and economic relations, especially continued sustainable development and the work to achieve social justice and eliminating poverty and hunger and preserving the environment.

The two sides will also discuss in the field of biological technologies in order to enhance agricultures in arid and semi arid areas which cover most of the Arab states lands.

The official at the Brazilian ministry of sciences and technology Avirtor Loshero said that his country is an expert in this regard, considering that biotechnology might constitute an area for closeness in order to achieve joint projects.

Loshero said that drought resisting agricultures will be the joint basic projects to be discussed.

However, Arab and Latin American scientists held in September 2004 a conference in Brazil on water resources in which they assessed the potentials in the two sides and the possibility of conducting joint venture projects.

Fighting drought in Brazil's northern areas is one of the Brazilian's President objective as he lived in that area before he left with his family to the industrial Saint Paolo area.

This summit, the first of its kind, will be attended by several Arab leaders and Latin American countries. The foreign ministers of the Arab states and Latin American states will start today, Monday, morning meetings in preparations for the summit which will highlight several political issues.

Meantime, The Brazil summit that will bring together 33 Arab and south American countries on May 10-11 will help improve exchanges between the two sub-regions and develop south-south relations, said Moroccan Industry Minister, Salaheddine Mezouar.

The minister is part of the Moroccan delegation that arrived Sunday in Brasilia to take part in the summit that is held at the initiative of Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva whose government makes enormous efforts to bring closer South America and the Arab states.

Mezouar said the development of south-south relations has become a must to bring balance to international trade and to avoid disparities in the level of growth. Countries of the south, he said, have to reinforce their relations to create contacts and exchanges.

Arab and south American countries have long focused on traditional markets, but in this time of globalization, approaches should change both in terms of investment and economic exchanges, he pointed out. Brasilia summit will examine means to strengthen political, economic, trade and cultural relations between south America and the Arab states.

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