LatinNews Daily Report - 26 April 2012

Brazil: The US defence department announced on 24 April that the US defence secretary Leon Panetta and his counterpart Celso Amorim had conducted the first US-Brazil Defense Cooperation Dialogue (DCD), an initiative of Presidents Dilma Rousseff and Barack Obama aimed at fleshing out the US-Brazil Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA), signed in April 2010. The statement said that under the auspices of the DCD the US and Brazil would focus on six priority categories in 2012: science, innovation and technology transfer; logistics; communications; humanitarian assistance and disaster response; cooperation in support of African nations; and cybersecurity.

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