Georgetown : Guyana will serve as Chair of the Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the United Nations General Assembly for the sixty-seventh session.
According to the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Assembly today elected Guyana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Ambassador George Talbot, by acclamation to the post. Ambassador Talbot is the first Representative of a CARICOM Member State at the United Nations to hold the position.
The Second Committee, which deals with a wide range of development matters, will have a full agenda of issues to consider, among them macro-economic policy questions, sustainable development issues, including follow-up to the Rio+20 conference, challenges associated with poverty eradication, globalization, international migration and development, and the situation of countries in special circumstances such as Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States.
Guyana’s priorities for the upcoming session will include a focus on food security and
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