In 1924 Uruguay established an honorary consulate in Beirut, and on November 16, 1928 made it a consulate general for the State of Greater Lebanon and Syria.[6] On October 25, 1945 the Government of Uruguay was one of the first countries to open diplomatic relations with the newly independent state of Lebanon, upgrading their Beirut mission to an embassy. In 1954 the Lebanese President Camille Chamoun visited Uruguay.[3] On May 31, 1954 he signed the first treaty between the two countries in Montevideo.[6]