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R 011645Z FEB 08
FM AMEMBASSY BRASILIA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 0959
RUEHRC/DEPT OF AGRICULTURE WASHDC
INFO RUEHSO/AMCONSUL SAO PAULO 1541
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO 5750
RUEHRG/AMCONSUL RECIFE 7655
UNCLAS BRASILIA 000168
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STATE FOR OES - STAN SPECHT AND CAMILLE HILL
USDA FOR HARRY BAUMES
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EAID ENRG SENV TRGY KSCA BR
SUBJECT: BRAZILIAN RESPONSES TO INVITATIONS TO PARTICIPATE ON PANELS
AT WIREC 2008
1. Post has received the following responses to the invitations to
Brazilians to participate on a panel or in a plenary session at the
Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008):
ACCEPTED: Jose Sergio Gabrielli de Azevedo, President of Petrobras,
Brazil's state-owned oil company
ACCEPTED: Silvio Crestana, President-Director of EMBRAPA, the
Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation
REGRETED: Professor Jose Goldemberg
REGRETED: Minister of Science and Technology Sergio Rezende
REGRETED: Minister of Agriculture Reinhold Stephanes
3. Agriculture Minister Stephanes has proposed that Manoel Vicente
F. Bertone, the Secretary of Production and Agroenergy, Ministry of
Agriculture, replace him at WIREC. The Embassy supports this
proposal.
SOBEL