CARICOM Chairman emphasising Community solidarity

Current Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), His Excellency Brigadier David Granger, President of Guyana, said he is placing much emphasis on Community solidarity.

‘The Caribbean Community remains the important focus of our foreign policy. The strengthening of the Caribbean Community is vital to our national economy and security. I am currently the Chairman of CARICOM and I place much emphasis on community solidarity,” the President was quoted as saying in an interview in the May edition of the Guyana Review, published by Guyana Publications Inc.

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Responding to a question on his foreign policy thrust, the President said that he had projected Guyana as the “hinterland of the Caribbean as we work to encourage more economic partnerships with Member States. “

“My visits to The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Haiti, St. Vincent, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago are all part of my work.”

Guyana is also part of the wider hemispheric community. We remain fully engaged in the councils of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS); Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC); Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) and the Organisation of American States. Our aim is to ensure that the Caribbean can become a zone of peace and that this country can proceed with its economic development.

Guyana also seeks markets for its products and services and needs to attract increased investment, economic cooperation and trade with the rest of the region and the world. Economic diplomacy is a major focus of my administration’s foreign policy,” he said, according to the Guyana Review.

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