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Mar 23, 2016 News
Experienced Diplomat, George Talbot, will be the next Ambassador of Guyana to Brazil,
Government announced yesterday.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it has received the Agrément (agreement) from the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil for the appointment of Talbot, as the next resident Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.
The ministry did not immediately say who will replace Talbot, who has been working with the United Nations on the Venezuelan border controversy.
Talbot, 53, is a career diplomat who joined the Foreign Service in 1993. He currently serves as the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, a position he held since January 2012.
He is also the current non-resident Ambassador to the State of Israel and non-resident High Commissioner to the Republic of Namibia.
The ministry said that Talbot has extensive experience in multilateral diplomacy.
He has represented Guyana at the UN and in other international fora on economic, social, political and related issues. He headed the delegation in New York during Guyana’s chairmanship of the Rio Group in 2006 and of the Union of South American Nations in 2011.
Talbot has also held several posts on UN intergovernmental bodies, including Chairman of the Economic and Financial Committee of the UN General Assembly at its sixty-seventh session (September 2012 – September 2013).
Most recently, he served as a co-facilitator of preparations for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, which adopted the Addis Ababa Action Agenda in July 2015.
Talbot began his public service in Guyana in 1991 with the Department of International Economic Cooperation, Ministry of Finance. He served from October 1991 to June 1992, as Associate Lecturer, Spanish (Part-time) at the University of Guyana.
Talbot joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1993. Previously, he worked in the private sector from 1981 to 1986.
Talbot holds an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; and a B.A. in Modern Languages (Spanish/French) from the University of Guyana. He is fluent in English and Spanish; conversant in French and Portuguese.
Guyana and Brazil have been increasing the ties between the two countries for a number of years now with a bridge, the Takutu, linking both countries at Lethem, Region Nine.
Hundreds of Brazilians live and work in Guyana with a brisk cross-border trade in place.
The two countries are currently working on a number of collaborative projects, including paving the Linden/Lethem trail, building a deep water harbour and the construction of a huge hydro power dam in Guyana.
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