Georgetown : Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee will be leading a delegation comprising high level security sector and revenue protection officials to meet with their counterparts in neighbouring Suriname on September 6-7.
This meeting will held under the Presidential Engagement Initiative, the brainchild of former President Bharrat Jagdeo and Surinamese Head of State, Desi Bouterse. The last meeting of this nature was held in 2011.
The delegation will include: Guyana Defence Force’s Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Gary Best, Commissioner of Police, Leroy Brummel, Commissioner General, Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU), James Singh and other senior security sector officials.
In February 2012, President Donald Ramotar and an eight-member delegation engaged in a one-day working visit to Suriname where an agreement was reached for the establishment of a Border Security Committee as a direct mechanism for information sharing and monitoring, so as to deal with this matter in all its aspects.
During this engagement, it was highlighted that the issue of making the Springlands/Nickerie crossing referred to as the ‘back track’ route into a legal entry point is under active consideration.
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