Bio-fuel Agreement Signed

Presidents of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe and Honduras Manuel Zelaya will sign administrative agreements in Bio-fuel as part of the links both governments have developed in the field of energy.

Uribe who arrive to this States accomplishing a State visit will also attend along with his Honduran peer inauguration of a bio-diesel plant in the Caribbean department of Colon.

According to La Tribuna newspaper the text the two leaders will sign will complement the Basic Technical Cooperation Agreement over Bio-fuel, in force since 1980.

With capacity to produce 10,000 liters of bio-diesel daily the facility mentioned is functioning here since 2008 after delivery of a project by Colombian authorities.

The factory, located in Tocoa at 279 miles north of Tegucigalpa, uses African palm oil and the operations benefit small producers.

Its investment has exceeded one million dollars starting from a joint fund in which Colombia donated 80 percent and Honduras gave the rest.

According to local press media the Honduran National Congress gave South American leader honorary decoration in its degree of Extraordinary Grand Cruz with gold plaque.

Uribe will finally speak at a press conference before finishing his brief stay in this Central American nation.


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