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Uruguay interested in Constanta, Montevideo ports cooperation on energy
Romania and Uruguay will stage a business forum in Bucharest in October or November meant to boost the economic relations between the two states, Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean announced at a news conference on Tuesday with Uruguayan counterpart Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes, who particularly showed interest in the energy-sector exchanges, which he said can open new ways for cooperation.
Corlatean stressed that the areas of interest for both sides as regards the promotion of mutual investments and economic exchanges target the infrastructure, navigation, high technology and agriculture.
The Romanian top diplomat voiced Bucharest's interest in 'the cultural exchanges, the contacts between citizens, the tourist exchanges, the exchanges between the two countries' academic communities and civil society'.
The two ministers, on the occasion of the Bucharest meeting, signed the following accords: the Programme for Cooperation on education and culture between the Government of Romania and the Government of Uruguay for 2013-2018 and the Accord by an exchange of letters between the Government of Romania and the Government of Uruguay aimed to ease the conduct of lucrative activities by the family members of the staff working at the diplomatic missions and consular posts.
Corlatean voiced interest in negotiating an agreement on social security and said Bucharest is 'currently undergoing an internal procedure for the ratification of the Accord of the previously-signed convention on avoiding double taxation'.
The Uruguayan minister of foreign relations underscored the need to step up the economic cooperation, with stress on the energy-sector exchanges.
'An economic forum with the entrepreneurs is fundamental, because it proves the interest for the cooperation between the Montevideo port and the port of Constanta. The two countries also have interesting products that could lead to increasing the commercial relations and the relations with Mercosur. We speak of energy, wind energy, all the energy-sector exchanges can open new ways for collaboration', Lemes said.
He said he wished to have 'Romania's support for the cooperation with Mercosur' and spoke of 'a more important international insertion of it'.
The Uruguayan official is paying a visit to Romania on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of an European tour that will also take him to Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Spain, the Romanian foreign ministry announced.