Brazilians willing to set up Guyana’s Customs office at Takatu

May 16, 2009 News

The Brazilian Embassy in Guyana has reportedly been in negotiations with Guyana and has offered to construct an office to house Guyana Customs and Immigration Department to work at the Brazilian side of the Takatu Bridge.
The director of South America from the Brazilian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Clement de Lima Baena Soares, stated that the traffic on the Bridge was blocked by Guyana in the end of last month, one day after the government of Roraima had set free the bridge for access to cars and trucks, in agreement with Brazilian federal agencies.
It added that Guyana alleged not to have the Customs structure and ready police officers to control the very bigger flow of loads and people, especially in ends of week and holidays.
The Brazilian Government is making all possible efforts to ensure that this problem is surpassed in the lesser possible stated period.
The aim is merely to create conditions so that Guyana is able to receive the flow of passengers and cargo, said the director of the Department South America of the Department of state, Clement de Lima Baena Soares.
Traders of the two countries are seeking to place pressure on the authorities to have access to the bridge normalized, but a fixed date for the solution of the impasse is yet to be determined.
Until then, a raft continues to be the only mode of transportation across the border between Brazil and Guyana.
The Takatu Bridge was planned in 1973, but the workmanship alone was concluded in February.
Bureaucratic tendencies had hindered the official inauguration in March.
The diplomat, Baena Soares, pointed out the strategic commercial importance of the workmanship for Brazil, when facilitating the exportation of Brazilian products for the Caribbean.
“The importance of this bridge is that the production of Roraima and Manaus could be for the benefit of the Caribbean.
It facilitates the commerce and also represents a plus in the step of physical integration of the South America,” he affirmed.
The Embassy of Brazil in Georgetown, Guyana, and the Embassy of Guyana in Brasilia are currently engaged in negotiations to resolve the issue.
Many Brazilian tourists cross the border with Guyana to shop.
This type of commerce, however, must have more rigorous oversight from the release of the traffic for the bridge.

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