ocr: After many years ofp political isolation and economic decline, Uruguay's chieff foreignpolicy concern 1S achieving regional integration with Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay in MERCOSUR, the common market of southern South America. This should come into full operation in 1996. Uruguay is already part ofa continental lefense alliance with other Latin American countries and the USA. However, it has some unresolved border problems with Brazil. Uruguay allowedthe UK to use its ports during the Falklands contlict. Inl 1991, Uruguay and the USA signedalegal- assistance treaty to allow easier access to ...
