The Government of Guyana and the People’s Republic of China will tomorrow sign a cooperation agreement at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre.
Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Carl B. Greenidge and State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Mr. Wang Yi, will sign the agreements on behalf of their respective Governments.
The agreements to be signed are the “Framework Agreement Provision of a Concessional Loan between the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Government of the People’s Republic of China” and “The Agreement on Economic and Technical Cooperation between the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and Government of the People’s Republic of China”.
Simultaneously, a handover ceremony will be held to mark China’s contribution to support the hosting by the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana of the Seventeenth Session of the Committee for the Review and Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 17) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), scheduled to take place early next year in Georgetown.