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Many border development projects were signed today by international cooperation agencies from Brazil and Peru in order to boost sectors like agriculture, aquaculture, natural resources exploitation, and health strategy.

Peru's International Cooperation Agency (APCI) welcomed the mission chaired by Minister Marco Farani, head of the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, gathered for the signing ceremony.

The executive director of Peru's International Cooperation Agency (APCI), Carlos Pando Sanchez, said the cooperation agreements are the result of coordinated work of both countries to promote the border region development.

One of the agreements, signed by both countries at Peru’s Foreign Ministry facilities, aims to strengthen capacities for improvement of latex production in Madre de Dios region.

The agreements were signed within the framework of the official visit to Lima paid by the Brazilian Foreign Affairs Minister, Cesar Amorim, who will hold a meeting tomorrow with his Peruvian counterpart José Antonio García Belaunde.

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