uruguay and Brazil have a long history of international relations, marked by long periods of peace and prosperity, with conflictuous intermittences - In more recent times, many joint initiatives have been created to integrate socio economic advancements and development in each country, such as the 'high level group of brasil-uruguay', was created to ensure their populations maintain access to information, science, technology, transportation and communication.

being strong members of MERCOSUR, mercado comum do sul, which encourages free trade and the efficient movement of goods, the countries have been utilizing this platform to strengthen each other and south america as a whole.