UNASUR pro-tempore chairmanship passed on to Uruguay – PM and Foreign Minister attend

UnisurPrime Minister Samuel Hinds and Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett led a Guyana team to meetings in Eucador which demonstrates both regular business and progress of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR).On December 4, at a meeting of Heads in Guyaquil, the annual Pro-Tempore Chairmanship of UNASUR was passed from H.E President Desi Delano Bouterse of Suriname to H.E President Jose Alberto Mujica Cordano of Eastern Republic of Uruguay.On December 5, in Quito the new modern magnificent headquarters building of UNASUR was inaugurated during day long ceremonies of great pomp and splendour.  The location known as the “Centre of the Earth” lent greatly to the grandeur of the occasion, set at the foot of a low hill leading to a temple to the Sun God, amidst peaks of the Andean mountain range; the Equator is marked on a line through the Centre of the Temple.

The 12-member UNASUR comprises: Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guyana, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Colombia, Chile and Bolivia.

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