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Senior EU official to inspect Enmore packaging plant, sea defense projects
A senior official of the European Union is set to visit Guyana next week to inspect several projects and to
EU’s Jolita Butkeviciene
assess the country’s capacity with the programmes of that body.
According to the EU yesterday, Jolita Butkeviciene, Director of Latin America and the Caribbean of European Commission’s Directorate for Development and Cooperation (DEVCO), will be here on Monday on a working visit that will enable her to assess Guyana’s capacity to improve in its development cooperation relations.
Among other things, Director Butkeviciene will visit key projects supported with EU funding, including the sea defences, the Ogle International Airport and the Mangrove Restoration Projects. She will also have discussions with representatives of the sugar industry and visit the operations of the Guyana Sugar Corporation at Enmore. The EU had financed the construction of a sugar packaging plant there.
During her three-day visit, Butkeviciene will meet with President Donald Ramotar; Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds; Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett; Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh; Minister for Public Works, Robeson Benn and Speaker of National Assembly, Raphael Trotman.
She will also meet with the Leader of the Opposition David Granger; private sector representatives, ambassadors of neighboring countries; the British, Canadian and American Heads of Mission, as well as the acting Secretary General of CARICOM and the Director General of CARIFORUM.
A senior EU official is set to carry out inspections on a number of projects
“At the end of her mission on Wednesday, Butkeviciene will be in a position to better assess Guyana’s capacity to deal effectively with the EU and to better program EU development cooperation as a consequence.
Her visit also marks an historic milestone in EU/Guyana relations as it is the first for a high level official from the EU Headquarters in Brussels under the 10th EDF programme cycle which began in 2007.”
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