Insanally sets up strategic think tank
Stabroek News
January 25, 2003
Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally hopes to have an advisory body up and running within the next month providing his ministry with a reservoir of strategic thought.
The Foreign Service Institute will serve as the secretariat to the body.
Insanally announced the formation on Thursday when he briefed the media at his South Road office on the projected plans of his ministry for the year.
He said the objective of the ministry in setting up the body is to enable it to draw on the expertise of Guyanese at home and abroad to provide the strategic thinking to which officials, engaged in the daily management of the country’s foreign affairs, cannot devote sufficient time.
Commenting on the body’s composition, Insanally said it would be small and that its members would be involved in an ad hoc basis on various issues.
He saw its work as being similar to an arrangement President Bharrat Jagdeo had put in place when he took over the chairmanship of the Caribbean Community.
According to Insanally, the President had met with distinguished Guyanese academics and other notables such as Sir Shridath Ramphal, economists Drs Havelock Brewster and Denis Benn in brainstorming sessions at State House.
Related to the establishment of the advisory body, Insanally noted that Guyana would ultimately have to face the prospect of delimiting maritime areas with Venezuela, Suriname and the Caribbean.
