Chile is opening an embassy here with a resident ambassador to assume duties this week as South America’s most developed country looks to step up its cooperation with Guyana and the Caribbean in a number of areas.
In an interview with Stabroek News in Chile’s capital Santiago last week, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Heraldo Muñoz noted that Guyana is a part of South America and a member of several regional groupings including UNASUR and CELAC and both Guyana and Chile are together in a number of other multilateral bodies such as United Nations. “We are very interested in the Caribbean and Guyana is also a Caribbean nation and in addition to that, the host country for Caricom,” the minister added. He said that Santiago wants to be present in Guyana and to increase links with a country “that we consider our neighbour, our friend and maybe a conduit to deepen our relations with the Caribbean.”
Ambassador-designate Claudio Rojas was expected to arrive in the country yesterday and officially take up duties tomorrow. Chile has been ranked by the United Nation’s Human Development Index as the most developed country in South America and in 2010, became the
