This is a first for a member country of the European Union. France will soon open an embassy in Guyana, announced the Quai d’Orsay, during a visit on Tuesday by the head of diplomacy Stéphane Séjourné.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs went to Georgetown to announce it, during discussions with President Irfaan Ali and his Guyanese counterpart Hugh Todd, “under the sign of major international crisis issues (Haiti, Ukraine, Middle East )”.
The Essequibo crisis
Guyana presides over the Caribbean Community (Caricom), in the midst of a security and political crisis in Haiti. He is also an elected member of the UN Security Council. This choice also comes as Guyana and Venezuela compete for the oil-rich Essequibo region.
“The minister knows that he can find in Guyana an interlocutor to advance the efforts of the international community to resolve these crises,” insists the Quai in its press release, specifying that this is the first time that a French minister of Foreign Affairs visits Guyana.
This decision “is also part of France’s diplomatic rearmament”, specifies the Quai d’Orsay, after the announcements concerning “an Embassy in Samoa, a Consulate General in Mosul and Melbourne and the creation of 700 additional posts of here 2027 for French diplomacy.”