Guyana’s Head of State, President Irfaan Ali has declared that his nation’s priority is peace and wants the region to remain a “Zone of Peace.”
President Ali made this remark while addressing the VIII Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), being held in St Vincent and the Grenadines. He began by taking the opportunity as a member of the CARICOM family to acknowledge and congratulate the Government and people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines for its leadership role and stewardship of the Presidency of the Pro Tempore Secretariat over the last year. He said that St Vincent and the Grenadines has done the region proud in guiding the work of CELAC over the past year, and in particular the engagement with the EU in July 2023 after a hiatus of several years. He noted too that Guyana was Guyana was pleased to host the Meeting of the CELAC Ministers of Agriculture held in Georgetown in June 2023.