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...“The regulated market is very important to advance solutions with the best cost benefit,” said Tasso Azevedo, co-ordinator at the non-profit MapBiomas....
...Among the Bolsonaristas elected was Cleitinho Azevedo, a 40-year-old YouTuber and former musician from Minas Gerais who joined the president on stage in Montes Claros sporting a camouflage cap and football...
...The contest was triggered by the decision of current director-general Roberto Azevêdo to step down early....
...A day earlier, Bolsonaro had unexpectedly fired defence minister General Fernando Azevedo e Silva....
...Hours later he was followed by Fernando Azevedo e Silva, a reserve army general who held the defence brief. Brazilian media reported that the military man was requested to leave by the president....
...Fernando Azevedo e Silva, once a close ally of Bolsonaro but who resisted the president’s increasing calls for the armed forces to back him politically....
...Fernando Azevedo e Silva, once viewed as an ally of Bolsonaro, was the most significant move among a government reshuffle on Monday involving six portfolios....
...All three officers were said to be unhappy with the surprise ousting of Fernando Azevedo e Silva, once a close ally of Bolsonaro but who resisted the president’s increasing calls for the armed forces to...
...Hours later, he was followed by Fernando Azevedo e Silva, a reserve army general who held the defence brief. Local media reported that he was sacked by Bolsonaro....
...General Fernando Azevedo e Silva, the defence minister fired by Bolsonaro three weeks later, pointedly referred in his departure letter to the fact that he had “preserved the armed forces as institutions...
...Commenting on the findings last week, Roberto Azevêdo, WTO director-general, said “there are signs that trade-restrictive measures adopted in the early stages of the pandemic are starting to be rolled back...
...Here’s a (pre-lockdown) FT Magazine dispatch by Michael Peel....
...Letter in response to this article: Ethiopia’s problems require a radical approach / From Michael Street, Noto, Sicily, Italy...
...They include Michael Gove, environment secretary, and Geoffrey Cox, the attorney-general, who will try to persuade Eurosceptic MPs that the contentious Irish “backstop” will not lead to the UK being tied...
...Additional reporting by James Politi in Rome, Richard Milne, Nordic correspondent, and Michael Peel in Brussels...
...Michael Froman, Mr Obama’s top trade official, disputes that. “Our beef with the appellate body was that certain members were way too creative in creating law....
...Even if politicians are happy to give this up, “no [World Trade Organisation] member can unilaterally decide what its rights and obligations are”, said Robert Azevêdo, the WTO’s director-general....
...“We are confident that all parties will now give formal approval to their participation in what would be the first tariff-elimination deal at the WTO in 18 years,” US Trade Representative Michael Froman...
...He was due to speak on a panel with Mr Appel and Roberto Azevêdo, the World Trade Organisation’s director-general, later on Friday, addressing the theme “Rebooting global trade”....
...Michael Froman, the US trade representative, said the end of the deadlock reaffirmed both countries’ “commitment to the success and credibility of the WTO”....
...Diplomats remain hopeful that Mr Azevêdo may be able to find a compromise by Thursday....
...Michael Froman, US trade representative, warned in tweet that India’s focus on food security was premature....
...there’s no question it will deal a major blow to the credibility of the institution,” Michael Punke, the US ambassador to the WTO, told the FT....
...And in an interview with the Financial Times last week, the WTO’s director-general, Roberto Azevêdo, said he had yet to spy signs of a significant recovery in global trade in the first quarter....
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