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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates signs a pledge with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez and members of the Batuta Foundation and Colombia's Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation for U.S funds to provide education and services to children displaced by years of war, Oct. 3, 2007.

SIGNING CEREMONY

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates signs a pledge with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe Velez and members of the Batuta Foundation and Colombia's Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation for U.S funds to provide education and services to children displaced by years of war, Oct. 3, 2007.

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