Six new agricultural attachés were assigned to dialogue and defend Brazil’s interests abroad. In the edition of the Official Gazette last Friday (23), President Michel Temer and the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), Blairo Maggi, signed the nominations.
Brazilian agricultural attachés are chosen through a selective technical-based process, demonstrating the institution’s commitment to the values of meritocracy in the public service, according to Odilson Ribeiro e Silva, secretary of International Relations of Agribusiness of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply.
The MPLS already had 14 professionals working abroad. The attaché’s term of office shall be two years, renewable for a further two years. In order to hold the position of attache to the European Union in Brussels, Guilherme Costa was appointed, reinforcing the Brazilian performance with the current attache Márcio Rezende. In Colombia, in Bogotá, will act Marcus Vinicius Segurado Coelho; in Canada, in Ottawa, the representative will be Luciana Pimenta Ambrozevicius; in the Kingdom of Morocco, in Rabat, will act Nilson César Castanheira Guimarães. In the Republic of Egypt, in Cairo, the attaché will be Cesar Simas Teles, and in the Republic of Indonesia, in Jakarta, the position will be occupied by Gustavo Bracale.
The new attachés will go to São Paulo next week, from 26 to 30, for visits to the Port of Santos and for meetings with representatives of private sector entities. From this, the new attachments begin the process of disengagement of their functions in Brazil and the change to their respective posts.
The attachés are professionals capable of anticipating the constant changes in the requirements of the countries that import agricultural products and of answering, in a fast and technically consistent way, the various questions posed by Brazil’s trading partners, explained Odilson Ribeiro e Silva.
Among the main topics discussed, we highlight negotiations involving trade, sanitary and phytosanitary restrictions. Agricultural products face restrictions of this kind throughout the world, regardless of their origin. The presence of a specialized professional representing the Brazilian agriculture with the main buyers markets allows clarification and exchange of constant technical information.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.