Weekly Report - 20 October 2016 (WR-16-41)

URUGUAY | Strengthening commercial ties with China. On 18 October Uruguay’s President Tabaré Vázquez and China’s President Xi Jinping, oversaw the signing of 16 bilateral cooperation agreements in the areas of education, culture, defence, tourism, sports, agriculture, forestry, information technology and communications. In addition, the two leaders also agreed to start negotiating a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in 2018.

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