Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez and Columbian leader Alvaro Uribe have buried their acrimonious differences over a captured Columbian rebel. At a meeting on Tuesday — the first between the two presidents since the December arrest of rebel Rodrigo Granda — the two leaders agreed to boost security cooperation and restart stalled trade deals. "We have turned the page now to settle what was left undone, speed up accords that were delayed or halted and clear up things that were confused," Chavez said at a press conference with Uribe.Chavez had recalled his Bogota envoy and frozen trade projects after accusing Colombia of violating Venezuelan sovereignty by paying bounty hunters to kidnap Granda from Caracas. Although the two countries had agreed last month to end the dispute, face-to-face meeting between Chavez and Uribe was delayed after the Colombian president got an ear infection. Mending ties The two governments agreed to work on better communication, increase military cooperation and restart commerce agreements, including construction of a cross-border gas pipeline.