Georgetown : President Bharrat Jagdeo on May 9, 2011 will appoint and install Columbia’s former foreign Minister Maria Emma Mejia as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nation, (UNASUR).
President Jagdeo, as Chairman of UNASUR will perform the inauguration at State house.
Mejia will serve as Secretary General for the first half of the two year term, while Venezuela’s former Energy Minister Ali Rodriquez will hold the post the following year.
The position of Secretary General had been left vacant since the death of former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner on October, 2010. Kirchner was elected in May to a two-year term as secretary general of the regional body.
Guyana assumed the chairmanship of UNASUR in November 2010, which President Jagdeo said was a demonstration of strengthening ties with Latin America.
UNASUR is a political and economic union that was formed on May 23, 2008 in Brazil with the aim of creating a South American integrated space in the political, social, economic, environmental and infrastructural spheres.
