Hemispheric cooperation needed on environmental threats

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee (left) and GDF Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips at the meeting in Peru. (Ministry of Home Affairs photo)

Threats to the environment make hemispheric cooperation more necessary, according to Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee.

Speaking on Sunday at the opening of the just-concluded 11th Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas (CDMA), Rohee said Guyana supports the call to modernise and adapt the Inter-American Defence System to make it more relevant to the multi-dimensional challenges facing the nations individually and collectively.

He further added that any discussion of security in the hemisphere would be deficient without a focus on the