CABINET has approved the hosting of the Fifth Meeting of the Guyana/ Brazil Group on Council Cooperation and the Sixth Meeting of the Guyana/Brazil Frontier Committee.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon told reporters on Friday at the post- Cabinet briefing at the Ministry of the Presidency that the meetings will be held on June 5 and 6, 2017 in Lethem, Region Nine.

Guyana’s delegation will be led by Director- General, Ambassador Audrey Waddell-Jardine.
Harmon said the meetings are aimed at addressing issues relating to “cooperation between communities on the borders between Guyana and Brazil on the areas of health, education, water management, animal and agricultural surveillance, trafficking and violence against women, indigenous issues and public security.”
The Guyana/Brazil Frontier Committee was established on September 14, 2009 with the inaugural signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries on the Takutu bridge.

“This mechanism was established to advance the process of integration by nurturing development of the population within the frontier communities,” Minister Harmon recalled.
The Fifth Meeting of the Guyana Brazil Group on Council Cooperation and the Sixth Meeting of the Guyana/Brazil Frontier Committee were last held in Bom Fim, Brazil, in February 2016. (DPI/GINA)