Pompeo to visit Guyana !

www.stabroeknews.com/2020/09/13/news/guy...it-guyana-this-week/

Pompeo is expected to be in Guyana from September 17 to September 18.

He would be the highest-ranked US government official to visit Guyana in decades.

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira

described the scheduled visit as “important and significant.”

“Especially in light of what has happened over the five months and the US government’s support

to Guyana during that time this visit is important,”

the minister stressed while explaining that she was unaware of whether it was a trip to the Caribbean

and Latin America region or to Guyana alone.

In this region, the US government has been trying to drum up support

against the Venezuelan government led by Nicholas Maduro.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will also visit Suriname on Thursday before arriving in Guyana. Media in the country announced this and the Surinamese Minister of Foreign Affairs confirmed it to the news agency ANP.

It is the first time that a US Secretary of State has visited Suriname. Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin told the ANP that he sees the meeting as a sign of American confidence in the new government of President Chan Santokhi.

Earlier this year, Pompeo said he was following the elections in both countries closely. Towards the end of Guyana’s five-month election crisis he announced visa sanctions on persons undermining democracy here and called on the Granger administration to step aside after the recount results showed that it had lost the March 2nd general elections.

There is intense speculation in Guyana about the purpose of Pompeo’s visit.

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