Brasília, December 2, 2002 (Agência Brasil - ABr) - Brazil and Paraguay, in the persons of their repective ministers of Agriculture, Pratini de Moraes and Dario Baungarten, have signed an agreement to eradicate foot and mouth disease along their border. Under the agreement, Brazil will resume imports of beef, boned and matured, from Paraguayan regions free of the disease. On September 23, Brazil suspended imports of Paraguayan beef after the disease was discovered in that country. (AB)