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Bouterse arrives Monday for one-day State visit

Sep 01, 2010 News

Officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade and International Cooperation have confirmed that recently elected Surinamese President Desi Bouterse will be travelling to Guyana next Monday for an official State visit.
It has been reported that the construction of a bridge across the Corentyne River and fighting drugs, crime and diseases are slated to top the agenda of the one-day visit.
Bouterse and his coalition, the Mega Combination (De Mega Combinatie) were voted to become the biggest party in Suriname recently.
On July 19, 2010, Bouterse was elected as President of Suriname; he was installed to the office on August 12, 2010.
Despite the chequered background of the former military strongman, Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is on record as saying that this country will work with any democratically elected leader.
Bouterse is closely bound with the military regime that controlled Suriname from 1980 until the beginning of the 1990s.
In February 1980, the government of newly-independent Suriname collapsed after a military coup which declared the country to be a Socialist Republic and saw Bouterse becoming Chairman of the National Military Council.
Though the Suriname Presidency was retained, Bouterse was the nation’s de facto ruler until his resignation in 1988.
He had served briefly as president himself for a period in 1982.
Prior to acceding to office, Bouterse had said that he wants a deeper connection with South America and that includes bridging the Corentyne River.

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