President Ramotar holds talks with IOM Officials - on sideline of UN General Assembly
Georgetown, GINA, September 25, 2012 -- Source - GINA
President Donald Ramotar on Tuesday afternoon held talks with the Director General of the International Organisation on Migration (IOM), Ambassador William Lacy Swing at the office of Guyana’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations at Second Avenue, New York, USA.
The Head of State is in the US to attend the 67th United Nations General Assembly and is slated to deliver an address on Thursday.
President Donald Ramotar and Director General of the
International Organisation on Migration (IOM),
Ambassador William Lacy Swing
Ambassador Swing congratulated President Ramotar for being elected Guyana’s Head of State and during an invited comment after the meeting, said he was privileged to meet the Guyanese Head of State and expressed his intention to work closely with Guyana.
“We had a very fruitful discussion, examined a wide range of issues and, we will be working closely with Guyana from our office in Georgetown. We also discussed the Diaspora initiative the president is about to launch here in New York and I am very excited about this and looking forward to attend the event and make a few remarks,” Ambassador Swing said.
President Ramotar in an invited comment said the discussions with the IOM head were very successful and covered several key areas of cooperation.
International Organisation of Migration Officials who met
with President Donald Ramotar on September 25, 2012 in
New York
“You know we only joined the IOM in December last year, but there are a lot of interesting initiatives we can work on together. They have vast experiences as well and I think Guyana can benefit a lot by learning from their experiences and we also talked a lot about the possibilities of other projects, you know we are now developing our diaspora section, part of which we are launching tomorrow (Wednesday) in New York here and he will be there… so I think we have great possibilities of organising our diaspora better and working along with experienced people in the IOM to do so,” President Ramotar said.
Meanwhile, the president said the diaspora initiative is seen as key to building the local tourism and other sectors and the aim is to launch the plan on a solid foundation.
The initiative seeks to map the skills in the diaspora where it is believed that there is a lot of skilled Guyanese who are willing to contribute to the development of Guyana. Persons can log onto the internet and register, and upon completion of the project, an analysis of the available skills and intentions of registrants will be done to guide government’s policy.
