Prime Minister Mark Phillips expressed the Government of Guyana’s satisfaction with progress currently being made in advancing the cooperation agenda for the sustainable development of the Amazon region during the XIV Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) in Brazil recently.
A press release from the Prime Minister’s office said Phillips welcomed the renewed commitment to “reinvigorate, redesign and strengthen the partnership among the ACTO Member States” as demonstrated by leaders at the Amazon Summit held in Belem in August 2023. Guyana, the release stated, “supports the various mechanisms being put in place to facilitate the implementation of the Belem Declaration, noting the critical importance of standing forest, climate change, food and nutrition security and sovereignty to the region”.
