Georgetown: Former United States (US) President Jimmy Carter and other officials from the Carter Centre observer mission paid a courtesy call on Head of State, Donald Ramotar on Saturday.
Carter and his team met with President Ramotar at the Office of the President. Other members of the local delegation were Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy and Natural Resources and the Environment Minister, Robert Persaud.
According to President Ramotar, the meeting in itself was fruitful. Discussions were held on elections preparedness and other issues related to tomorrow’s General and Regional Elections.
“I am very happy to have them here. This is the team’s 100th election observation mission.”
The President said that it is an historical event especially in context of former US President’s role in bringing back democracy to Guyana.
Meanwhile, among the issues of concern raised by President Ramotar was that some parties do not yet have a list of polling day staff.
The former US President arrived at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Friday.
He is co-leading the Carter Center’s Observer Mission to monitor Guyana’s electoral process along with Dame Audrey Glover of the United Kingdom, and former Foreign Affairs Minister of Barbados, Billie Miller.
The Centre had deployed a team to Guyana since April including five experts and six medium-term observers, who were stationed at locations throughout the country.
This medium-term observation team was joined this week by more than 50 short-term observers from 24 countries.
They will be witnessing the electoral process, including voting, counting, polling and tabulation, and will release a preliminary statement of key findings on May 13, which will be available at http://www.cartercenter.org.
This is the Carter Center’s fourth election observer mission in Guyana.
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