The Guyana De­fence Force (GDF) and the Min­istry of De­fence of the Unit­ed King­dom have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Un­der­stand­ing (MoU) to en­hance bi­lat­er­al de­fence co­op­er­a­tion, mark­ing a sig­nif­i­cant step in strength­en­ing mil­i­tary ties be­tween the two na­tions.

The sign­ing fol­lowed a high-lev­el en­gage­ment led by Pres­i­dent Dr. Ir­faan Ali, who re­ceived the UK’s Min­is­ter of State in the Min­istry of De­fence, Lord Ver­non Coak­er, dur­ing a cour­tesy vis­it at the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent on Fri­day.

Ali em­pha­sised the im­por­tance of the UK-Guyana part­ner­ship, high­light­ing shared val­ues such as democ­ra­cy, the Rule of Law, and mu­tu­al re­spect. He wel­comed the agree­ment as a time­ly and strate­gic de­vel­op­ment in the con­text of re­gion­al and glob­al se­cu­ri­ty dy­nam­ics.