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A few days ago Uruguay’s chancellery signed a “cooperation” and “exchange” agreement with the US State Department that includes aspects like biodiversity as well as “biological and genetic” resources. The agreement was signed on April 30th in Washington D.C. It did not have wide coverage by the Uruguayan media. The Uruguayan Foreign Minister Gonzalo Fernandez and the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed “a bilateral agreement of Cooperation on Science and Technology” according to an official article of the US Embassy in Montevideo. The agreement is part of a series of advances in the bilateral relation, after the Uruguayan government refused to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but signed a Trade and Investment Framework Agreement with the US instead.

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