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OAS and International Road Transport Union Sign Cooperation Agreement

  January 31, 2011

OAS and International Road Transport Union Sign Cooperation Agreement
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The Organization of American States (OAS) and the International Road Transport Union (IRU) today signed a Cooperation Agreement that seeks to improve competitiveness and access by the Member States of the hemispheric Organization to international markets, optimizing the capacities of each country to create public policies in the road transport sector.

The document also establishes collaborative efforts to facilitate the insertion of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in global trade by improving supply-chain management of goods and services and ensuring the mobility of people and goods through road transport.

The agreement was signed at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC by the OAS Executive Secretary for Integral Development, Ambassador Mauricio Cortes y Costa, and the IRU Secretary General, Martin Marmy.

Reference: FNE-4778