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SN & the AFC are wrong about Jagdeo’s Middle East thrust

Jun 08, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Stabroek News in its June 5 edition, and under the caption “Have Arab uprisings sunk Jagdeo’s Middle East overtures?”, seems bent on pushing the AFC position on the President’s trips to the Middle East. It suggests “that there is nothing tangible to show” for all such efforts.
Before proceeding it should be understood that the AFC is in collusion with the imperialists and will salivate at their feet to get into the corridors of power in this country. The same vermin that the AFC is courting has a well-orchestrated policy of rape, murder, plunder and pillage in the Middle East.
The SN piece used the current uprisings in the Arab World, particularly Libya, to suggest that any agreement made between now deposed heads of state and Guyana are worthless given that new leaders will shift focus.
They did so ignoring the benefits derived and which cannot be taken back.  Those opposition foreign affairs experts that SN spoke with ignored the fact that Libya wrote off an almost US$100 million debt incurred by the former PNC Government as a result of Jagdeo’s visit to the Middle East.
Additionally, Guyana has consolidated its diplomatic standing by having an Ambassador in the region to address Guyana’s interests. Jamaica is expected to follow shortly with its mission in Kuwait, thereby opening the door to FDI in the region.
The foreign affairs experts SN spoke with also forgot that the Middle East is home to some of the countries with the World’s largest sovereign wealth funds. In the list of countries with the largest sovereign wealth funds, the UAE is second, Saudi Arabia fourth, Kuwait seventh, and Qatar ninth.
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis other countries have begun looking to the Middle East since the countries there came out unscathed from that calamity. Even UNASUR has sought to reach out to the Middle East. And this was highlighted at the Arab/South American Summit earlier this year.
It’s a pity that the AFC and the SN vision is being curtailed by a few Yankee dollars. However they are stupid to believe that the imperialists have no interest in the Middle East. They like the Government of Guyana know the value of that region.
The difference is that the Government of Guyana will pursue a policy of mutual benefit; imperialists’ vermin go for the kill.
Dave Martindale

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