Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Guyana ready for historic hosting of IV Regular Summit of UNASUR

ALL preparatory and other arrangements are in place for Guyana’s historic hosting of the important IV Regular Summit of Heads of State and Government representing the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).

Over the next three days, especially on Friday, the UNASUR Summit in Guyana will be history in the making, as Guyana, the only English-speaking country on the
South American continent, leads the way for consolidating a unified South America; that is, the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).



Members of the UNASUR planning committee and other officials met yesterday to finalise arrangements for the Summit, ahead of tomorrow’s meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of UNASUR countries to be held at the Guyana International Conference Centre at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Advance delegations from several countries have already arrived in Guyana, and Heads of State and Government, along with their respective delegations, are expected to start arriving later today for the Summit.

The Foreign Ministers meeting is slated to commence at 9:00 hrs tomorrow, while at 18:30 hrs tomorrow afternoon will be a major highlight of the Summit – the conferring of Guyana’s Order of Excellence on His Excellency Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Later the same evening will be a cultural programme in honour of Lula – the outgoing and charismatic Brazilian President - entitled ‘Landscape and Festivals’. Immediately following this will be a reception at the National Cultural Centre for delegates and invitees attending the award and cultural programme.

The delegates and invitees will then proceed to State House for a State Dinner hosted by His Excellency Bharrat Jagdeo in honour of the visiting Heads of State and Government of UNASUR.

On Friday, there will be the opening session of the IV Regular Summit of the UNASUR Heads of State and Government at 10:00 hrs at the Guyana International Conference Centre.

The historic transfer of the rotating presidency of UNASUR will also take place on Friday, when the chair will be transferred to Guyana, with His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo assuming the leadership position in the organization and where it will be his celebrated task to lead UNASUR on to the next milestone.
The fourth summit will be chaired by outgoing Chairman, President Rafael Correa of Ecuador.

UNASUR is an intergovernmental union integrating two South American trade blocs -- Mercosur (a regional trade agreement among Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) and the Andean Community of Nations (a trade bloc comprising countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru).

3 comments:

  1. the president once again praise and selected to lead and this time is twelve south american countries to the next milestone with guyana being the only english speaking country.

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  2. first the current president of guyana president jagdeo was elected to be president of guyana for two terms,the he was named champion of the earth and also receive the champion of the earth award and now he is elected as the leader of UNASUR.this is a true view of a good leader

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  3. the president have over the years show that he is a good leader and he has done this not only by being the leader of guyana but manage to be awarded as the leader for other major responsibility and projects that involve various countries.

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