Ambassador George Talbot, Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), was yesterday elected to serve as Chair of the Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) of the General Assembly for the 67th session.
Talbot was elected by acclamation to the post and is the first representative of a Caricom Member State at the UN to hold the position, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement yesterday.
It said that the Second Committee, which deals with a wide range of development matters, will have a full agenda of issues to consider. These include macro-economic policy questions, sustainable development issues, such as
