PRESS RELEASE

Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between Guyana and Rwanda

The Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Republic of Rwanda established diplomatic relations today, Wednesday, August 24, 2022, with the signing of a Joint Communiqué at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations in New York.

The Joint Communiqué was signed by Her Excellency Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana to the United Nations and His Excellency Claver Gatete, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Rwanda to the United Nations.

The two sides have agreed to strengthen the ties of friendship and cooperation between their two countries and peoples and to intensify collaboration at the multilateral level.

Rwanda – known as ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’, is situated in Central Africa, bordered to the North by Uganda, to the East by Tanzania, to the South by Burundi and to the West by the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Permanent Mission of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana to the United Nations

August 24, 2022