PPP/C supports efforts of Social Partners

PPP/C supports efforts of Social Partners

Guyana Chronicle
November 23, 2002

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The PPP/C, in support of the effort of the Social Partners to achieve consensus on its draft communique on crime, will be participating in the proposed meeting on Monday with the other Parliamentary parties.

Information Liaison to the President and Member of the PPP/C Delegation to the Joint Consultation, Robert Persaud, has said that the PPP/C delegation will be going into the meeting with the genuine desire to support the Social Partners' effort to achieve consensus on a crime communique that represents the sentiments of all Guyanese.

Spokesman for the Social Partners, Dr. Peter deGroot, has been informed of the PPP/C's participation in Monday's meeting.

Said Persaud: "That the Social Partners have moved in this direction, having their draft communique of November 8 rejected by the PNC/R, is a result of a significant departure by Congress Place from its earlier submission to, and discussion with the Social Partners."

He noted that a review of the evolution of the November 8, 2002 Social Partners' Draft Communique, will confirm a significant departure by the PNC/ R from its original position, adding that several of its amendments are irrelevant, and suggest they were included to hinder the Social Partners' Initiative to achieve early consensus on a crime communique.

Persaud assured that the PPP/C will continue to support the Social Partners as they seek to reach consensus (as it hopes will happen), noting this has been the long stated objective of the Party -to achieve true national cooperation in the fight against crime.