Rathedi is first ambassador to CARICOM
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Rathedi, who is Botswana’s resident ambassador to Brazil, was also accredited as the country’s first Plenipotentiary Representative to CARICOM in a ceremony in Guyana this week.
CARICOM is an organisation of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies, whose main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy.
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