ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Grenada Tuesday confirmed that it might set up a diplomatic presence in Canada, naming former authorities minister Sylvester Quarless because the island’s first Excessive Commissioner to the North American nation.
“Sure, the federal government has moved to, or we’re within the technique of transferring to open a Excessive Fee in Ottawa, Canada,” International Affairs Minister Joseph Andall advised a information convention.
“We acknowledge that to learn from our diplomatic illustration in that nation, it’s extra productive and smart to have a presence within the capital, the place the selections are made and the place you usually tend to have an effect.
“So, we’ve got began the method, and we at the moment are awaiting a number of different strikes, a few of that are exterior of our management for the time being, however as soon as we get the inexperienced gentle from the Canadian authorities, we will probably be continuing full steam forward with the bodily organising of that mission,” Andall added.
Quarless, the present chairman of the ruling Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC), previously served as atmosphere and social growth minister in the course of the NDC administration from 2008 to 2013.
Grenada at present has joint illustration in Ottawa by way of the sub-regional Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) and the appointment of an Honorary Consulate in Montreal and an Honorary Consul in Toronto.
And all mentioned the consulate within the metropolis of Toronto would proceed to operate.
“After all, we’ll proceed to keep up our consulate in Toronto, the place the vast majority of Grenadians in Canada reside,” he mentioned, with out indicating what would turn out to be of the Montreal Consulate workplace.
Establishing the diplomatic mission in Ottawa will carry Grenada’s variety of embassies worldwide to eight, with others in Cuba, the United States, the UK, Russia, Venezuela, China, and Brussels.
Canada and Grenada established diplomatic relations in 1974 after the island gained independence. Canada is represented in Grenada by the Excessive Fee of Canada in Barbados.
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