President David Granger yesterday conferred Brazil’s Minister of External Affairs, Mauro Luiz Iecker Vieira with the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second highest National Award.
The investiture ceremony was held at the Ministry of the Presidency.
President Granger, according to a Ministry of the Presidency statement, said that the conferral of the award was in recognition of Vieira’s decades of outstanding service in the Foreign Service of Brazil and successful career in diplomacy.
This gesture from Guyana, he added, is also testimony to the partnership that has been established, for several decades between Guyana and Brazil.
“This award signifies the commitment of Brazil to peace in this hemisphere and your role as Minister of External Affairs in ensuring that the philosophy and the policies of the Federative Republic of Brazil permeate all of the organisations and institutions, which have been established in this continent for peace and security… Throughout our relations we have always been able to depend on our friendship with Brazil,” Granger said.
In an invited comment, after a wreath-laying ceremony at the Independence Arch on Brickdam, the Brazilian Minister said that he accepted the Award with great honour as it is a tangible representation of the friendship between the Guyana and Brazil.
“I am very honoured to receive this important award, which carries the name of Roraima, which is so important to us. It is also the name of the Brazilian State on the border with Guyana…. We want to develop even closer relations between the two countries and to work together with the Guyanese government so as to deepen our channels of cooperation in different areas,” Minister Vieira said was reported as saying.
