Brazil & Southern Cone - August 2012 (ISSN 1741-4431)

Uruguay and Brazil are advancing rapidly towards an energy cooperation agreement “unprecedented at continental level” according to Ramón Méndez, Uruguay’s energy secretary. Uruguay’s industry, energy and mining minister Roberto Kreimerman was scheduled to travel to the Mercosur presidential summit in Brasília on 31 July for further talks. Kreimerman has been holding weekly videoconferences with Brazil’s deputy mining and energy minister, Marcio Zimmerman, to put together the deal, with the support of 20 technicians.

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