{"id":19440,"date":"2024-05-03T22:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T22:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=19440"},"modified":"2024-05-03T22:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T22:31:23","slug":"guyana-announces-key-diplomatic-appointments-to-brazil-switzerland-and-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-announces-key-diplomatic-appointments-to-brazil-switzerland-and-belgium\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Announces Key Diplomatic Appointments to Brazil, Switzerland, and Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Samuel Gillis <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Government of Guyana has unveiled significant diplomatic appointments, reinforcing its commitment to strengthen international relations with key partner countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent diplomatic appointments, signaling Guyana&#8217;s strategic approach to bolstering ties with Brazil, Switzerland, and Belgium has Professor Compton Bourne designated as the Ambassador to the Federative Republic of Brazil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a distinguished career, including serving as President of the Caribbean Development Bank and Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Bourne brings a wealth of experience to his new role. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud highlights Brazil&#8217;s importance as a strategic partner and neighbor, underscoring the potential for enhanced collaboration under Professor Bourne&#8217;s stewardship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Samuel-Gillis-Diplomatic-Appointments-1.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy has been appointed as the Ambassador to Switzerland, concurrently serving as Guyana&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, Sasenarine Singh, former CEO of Guysuco, assumes the role of Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Singh will also serve as Guyana&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, based in Brussels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Samuel-Gillis-Diplomatic-Appointments-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Secretary Persaud emphasizes the significance of these appointments in advancing Guyana&#8217;s national and foreign policy agendas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The filled positions are poised to support the country&#8217;s growing stature and strengthen its engagement on regional and multilateral platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a separate development, Guyana&#8217;s Ambassador to China, Anyin Choo, has been accredited as the country&#8217;s non-resident High Commissioner to Singapore, further expanding Guyana&#8217;s diplomatic footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Gillis The Government of Guyana has unveiled significant diplomatic appointments, reinforcing its commitment to strengthen international relations with key partner countries. The recent diplomatic appointments, signaling Guyana&#8217;s strategic&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-transformation","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19444,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19440\/revisions\/19444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}