The Ambassador of Uruguay in Portugal, Gastón Lasarte, upon concluding his diplomatic mission in Portugal, wrote to the President of IPDAL highlighting the important role that the Institute played as an “ally” in strengthening relations between the two countries and increasing the role of America Latin.

Embassy of Uruguay
Portugal

To Mr. Paulo Neves
President of the Institute for Promotion
and Development of Latin America
(IPDAL)

Lisbon, September 20, 2010.

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Upon concluding my diplomatic mission in Lisbon, after five happy and productive years, both on a personal and strictly professional level, it is natural and logical to take stock.

In a few days, I am definitively returning to Montevideo with the intimate satisfaction that it was possible to achieve in this time a true revitalization and diversification of the bilateral agenda between Uruguay and Portugal, in its different political, economic, cultural components and also in the area of cooperation bilateral, where nine agreements were signed in the areas of health, defense, parliamentary friendship, promotion of trade, prevention of double taxation and tax evasion, exchanges between diplomatic institutes, electronic surveillance of defendants, computerization of judicial services, simplification of procedures and records public.

In this five-year task, IPDAL has been a very valuable ally through its active, continuous and efficient contribution to the better relationship of the Embassy of Uruguay in Portugal with national and regional authorities, businesspeople, academics, journalists, experts and other figures in the most diverse institutional and corporate levels. A simple look at the list of actions developed during the aforementioned five-year period by IPDAL, an entity with a very practical perspective and a minimal administrative structure (in times where bureaucracies and unproductive pantries proliferate), fully confirms that the institute today is a instrument or central nexus in Lisbon to keep this imaginary bridge between Latin America and Portugal alive.

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