{"id":21036,"date":"2024-07-02T16:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21036"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:05:05","slug":"strengthening-us-guyana-relations-commitment-to-trade-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/strengthening-us-guyana-relations-commitment-to-trade-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening US-Guyana Relations: Commitment to Trade and Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Guyana and the United States have reaffirmed their dedication to enhancing trade relations, mutual development, and integrating security services between the two nations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali underscored this commitment during a reception commemorating the upcoming Independence Anniversary of the United States at Pegasus Suites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Ali highlighted the pivotal role of the United States in Guyana&#8217;s development, emphasizing that this longstanding partnership will continue to flourish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed mutual aspirations to confront transnational challenges, enhance information sharing, and integrate systems to uphold a rule-based society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In furthering bilateral ties, President Ali expressed his intent to expand cooperation with the US in military, intelligence sharing, and trade domains. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>US Ambassador to Guyana, Nicole Theriot, echoed these sentiments, noting the strengthened institutional collaboration, air domain awareness initiatives, and cybersecurity defenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She emphasized that law enforcement partnerships have grown significantly and highlighted a substantial increase in bilateral trade, surpassing $4.6 billion last year from a few hundred million previously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As the United States prepares to celebrate its 248th Independence Anniversary on July 4th, both nations look forward to continuing their robust partnership and fostering deeper ties across various sectors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana and the United States have reaffirmed their dedication to enhancing trade relations, mutual development, and integrating security services between the two nations. President Dr. Irfaan Ali underscored this commitment&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[363,350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21036","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\/21036","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=21036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21038,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21036\/revisions\/21038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}