Guyana formally handed over the Pro Tempore Chairmanship of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) to Paraguay at the fifth meeting of the Council of Heads of State and Government of UNASUR in Asuncion, that country’s capital, on October 29.
A Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release said that Prime Minister Samuel Hinds represented President Bharrat Jagdeo at this event.
The Pro Tempore Chairmanship of UNASUR rotates on a yearly basis in alphabetical order. Guyana assumed the
