Guyanese envoy assumes Chair of OAS Permanent Council

Bayney R. Karran (left), Chair of the OAS Permanent Council and Permanent Representative of Guyana to the OAS receiving the instruments of his chairmanship from Jorge Skinner-Klee, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Guatemala to the OAS.

Guyana’s Permanent Repre-sentative to the Organization of American States, Bayney R. Karran, yesterday assumed the Chair of the Permanent Council of the body in a ceremony held at OAS headquarters in Washington, DC.

Under OAS statutes the Chair is to be held successively by each of the Permanent Representatives, in alphabetical order as determined by each country’s name in Spanish, and