GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The next is the complete textual content of the communique issued right here on Thursday following a gathering between the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) and the President of Brazil
On the invitation of His Excellency Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and present Chairman of the Convention of Heads of Authorities of the Caribbean Group (CARICOM), His Excellency Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil paid an official go to to Georgetown, Guyana, as Chief Visitor on the Forty-Sixth Common Assembly of the Heads of Authorities of the Caribbean Group from 28 to 29 February 2024.
A high-level delegation, together with the Ministers of Planning and Funds, Transport, Integration and Regional Growth, and Ports and Airports, accompanied His Excellency President Lula.
His Excellency President Lula addressed the plenary of the forty sixth Common Heads of Authorities of the Caribbean Group on 28 February 2024, the place he highlighted regional and worldwide problems with frequent curiosity to each CARICOM and Brazil, particularly sustainable improvement and local weather change, meals, and diet safety, the state of affairs in Haiti, amongst others. He additionally engaged in bilateral discussions with CARICOM Heads of Authorities.
The Heads of Authorities of CARICOM recalled the primary CARICOM -Brazil Summit held in Brasilia in 2010 beneath the co-leadership of President Lula and Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica. They expressed appreciation for the chance to rehave interaction with the President of Brazil on this event.
The heads acknowledged that it was time for the area to take sensible steps to arrange cooperation for a improvement program with Brazil, placing into impact the Settlement on Technical Cooperation between Brazil and CARICOM signed on the Brasilia Summit.
In addition they agreed to broaden their buying and selling hyperlinks additional to understand their full potential. On this regard, they acknowledged the significance of a CARICOM partnership with Brazil to attain the area’s agricultural and meals and diet agenda-the 25×2025 Initiative.
His Excellency President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and His Excellency President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva additionally engaged in bilateral discussions. The 2 leaders examined their international locations’ relations, reviewed progress in implementing earlier undertakings, and dedicated to additional actions and sensible measures to deepen and advance the bilateral cooperation and integration agenda. On this regard, they famous with appreciation the document of achievements already made, such because the Takutu Bridge linking the 2 international locations.
The Presidents recalled the go to of His Excellency President Lula to Guyana from 14 to fifteen February 2005. The street connection between the 2 international locations was notably emphasised throughout that go to. The Presidents underscored the continued relevance of creating the street hyperlink between Guyana and Brazil.
The Presidents reaffirmed their mutual dedication to the complete improvement of a partnership program between Guyana and Brazil, geared toward enhancing the prosperity of the 2 international locations and strengthening regional integration. They emphasised the necessity for higher impetus in implementing commitments by either side to advance the bilateral cooperation and integration agenda, stressing the significance of efficient monitoring and analysis of agreed initiatives.
The Presidents designated their respective Vice-Presidents as accountable for coordinating the implementation of the bilateral cooperation and integration agenda. The 2 sides will work in direction of organizing a mission from Guyana to Brazil, comprising officers of the federal government and the enterprise sector, to broaden commerce and funding between the 2 international locations, which is able to happen within the second quarter of 2024.
The presidents additionally welcomed the chance to debate with President Chandrikapersad Santokhi of Suriname some initiatives on the trilateral stage in infrastructure, power, and cooperation on combatting illicit transnational actions, that are mirrored in a separate joint communiqué.
Moreover, His Excellency President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali and His Excellency President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva agreed to undertake the next actions geared toward strengthening the bilateral cooperation between Guyana and Brazil:
Revival of the established Ministerial Working Teams to additional bilateral engagements between the 2 international locations.
Better collaboration in agriculture and meals safety, sharing data and finest practices, enhanced cooperation between their respective analysis establishments, and selling funding.
The total implementation of the Guyana- Brazil Worldwide Highway Transport Settlement (IRTA).
We're encouraging the restoration of air connectivity between the 2 international locations.
We're advancing the method of the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed in November 2020 for the Technical Feasibility Research to put in a fiber optic hyperlink between Guyana and Brazil.
We're increasing the provisions of the Partial Scope Settlement.
We're working in direction of totally operationalizing the Settlement on Cooperation and Facilitation of Funding.
We're strengthening the bilateral dialogue and collaboration on frontier, consular, and migration points.
We're convening the Guyana/ Brazil Combined Border Fee to proceed border demarcation actions between the 2 international locations.
They're fostering consultations on peace and safety, together with by means of their everlasting missions to the UN.
I'm exploring a framework of engagement between Brazil and the Caribbean Group that seeks to contribute to enhancing meals safety within the area and advance the CARICOM Agri-Meals Programs Agenda, consistent with the just lately authorised CELAC Plan for Meals and Vitamin Safety and Starvation Eradication 2030 (FSN CELAC Plan 2030).
We're selling South American cooperation initiatives beneath the management of various international locations within the area, open to all taking part in well being, household agriculture, setting, infrastructure, power, digital transformation, protection, and safety.The 2 presidents underscored that worldwide regulation, human rights, democracy, social justice, the rule of regulation, and sustainable improvement are paramount pillars for a peaceable and affluent area. To this finish, the 2 presidents reiterated their unwavering dedication to making sure that the Latin American and Caribbean area stays a zone of peace and cooperation.
The 2 Presidents additionally mentioned problems with regional and worldwide concern, together with the conditions in Haiti, Ukraine, and Gaza. Each Presidents expressed their deep concern over the dramatic humanitarian disaster in Gaza and echoed their name for a right away ceasefire and the resumption of the peace course of.
They reaffirmed the pressing want for a two-state answer, with a viable State of Palestine dwelling aspect by aspect with Israel in peace and safety inside mutually agreed and internationally acknowledged borders. In addition they reiterated their unwavering help for Palestine’s full membership within the UN.
President Ali expressed his appreciation to President Lula and the federal government of Brazil for his or her constant and ethical help in favor of peaceable settlement of disputes within the South American area by worldwide regulation. President Ali additionally thanked Brazil for the important position of a facilitator, which it’s performing within the dialogue for peace and cooperation between Guyana and Venezuela throughout the context of the Argyle Declaration.
President Ali congratulated Brazil on assuming the G20 presidency, commending its introduced priorities of selling social inclusion and preventing starvation, poverty, and inequality; combating local weather change; selling power transition and sustainable improvement; and reforming world establishments. On this context, President Lula invited Guyana to think about becoming a member of the forthcoming International Alliance towards Starvation and Poverty, which is able to provoke unified efforts to deal with these important points.
President Ali congratulated President Lula on Brazil’s anticipated internet hosting of the thirtieth Convention of Events to the United Nations Framework Conference on Local weather Change (COP 30) 2025 in Belém and pledged his help.
In concluding their discussions, each Presidents expressed their satisfaction with the outcomes of their dialogue. They additional expressed their conviction that the choices taken to advance cooperation on bilateral, regional, and worldwide issues have been testimony to the political will of each Presidents and the imaginative and prescient for the financial and social improvement of the folks of Guyana and Brazil.
After the assembly, President Lula thanked His Excellency President Ali for the sort hospitality supplied to him and his delegation.
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