French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné is scheduled to arrive here on Monday and there is speculation that it will be announced that Paris will set up a full-fledged embassy here.
France has been heightening its diplomatic presence here fuelled by growing opportunities in the oil and gas sector and the prospects of defence industry sales. The absence of an embassy by a European Union country here has also been cited as a key gap.
Two French senators who visited in January this year have called on Paris to establish an embassy here on account of Guyana’s growing economic importance and common security interests in the face of threats from Venezuela.
