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Rubio to visit Guyana next week
Kaieteur News- United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio will travel next week to the Caribbean, where he will meet with several leaders as part of a three-nation tour, three sources said.
Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State © Reuters ex
On Wednesday, Rubio will travel to Jamaica, where he will be hosted by Prime Minister Andrew Holness for talks. He will then travel on to Guyana and Suriname, where he will meet with their respective presidents, Mohamed Irfaan Ali and Chandrikapersad “Chan” Santokhi. The two-oil rich nations on the tip of South America are part of the 15-member Caribbean Community regional trade group known as CARICOM.
Last month, during a regional summit in Barbados, the bloc’s chairwoman, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, extended an invitation to President Donald Trump to visit the Caribbean and added the leaders also hoped to meet with senior administration officials. Soon after, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Trump’s special envoy to the Americas, confirmed to the Miami Herald that both he and Rubio were planning to visit sometime this month.
Mottley plans to be in Kingston, where she will represent CARICOM. Trinidad and Tobago, which is responsible for matters about security, will be represented by its newly minted prime minister, Stuart Young. The final leader who has been invited to meet with Rubio is the newly installed head of Haiti’s embattled Transitional Presidential Council, Fritz Alphonse Jean. Rubio’s visit comes as leaders grow increasingly concerned about the quickly deteriorating security situation in Haiti, which threatens to spill over into the region, and several worrying U.S. policy shifts that stand to have negative effects on their vulnerable economies.
Friday’s agenda will also include discussions with the Guyanese government about the escalating border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela. Notably, while Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused President Ali of trying to start an armed conflict in the region, the U.S. earlier this month issued a stern warning to the Venezuelan leader following reports that a Venezuelan army vessel entered Guyanese waters, threatening ExxonMobil’s offshore operations.
(Information modified from Miami Herald)
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