GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana is sending a delegation to the fifth session of the Inter-Governmental Negotiation Committee in Geneva later this month where an international ban on mercury will be discussed.
The meeting is scheduled for January 13-18 and local stakeholders, including officials from the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), and the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) met here on Tuesday to finalise the country’s participation at the talks.
“We wanted the team to benefit from a wider cross-section of views, so we can review the text (of the draft document)...to ensure that it is consistent with our national position and more so to determine whether there are elements, aspects that we would want to bring to that meeting in terms of going forward,” said Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud.