GDF Chief of Staff Commodore Gary Best and Major General Luiz Paul Cruz of the Brazilian Armed Forces sign the Conference Agreements/Declarations at the conclusion of the conference
The Guyana Defence Force and the Brazilian Army on Thursday signed a protocol that will see cooperation in areas of training, doctrine and operations, intelligence, logistics, engineering, and international affairs.
The signing ceremony took place at the conclusion of the VI Bilateral Staff Conference between Brazil and Guyana at the Pegasus Hotel late Thursday.
The protocol provides training courses for GDF personnel over the period 2012 to 2014 in the fields of infantry, paratrooping, logistics, and engineering, while the cooperation in doctrine and operations will see, among other things, the linking of training institutions for the sharing of knowledge and experience.
The Colonel Robert Mitchell Jungle and Amphibious Training School is currently benefitting from the attachment of Brazilian instructors.
In 2012, the two forces will re-establish the biannual intelligence conferences with that conference being held in Brasilia. Apart from engineering training courses, GDF engineers will also benefit from attachments to Brazilian engineering units. In the area of logistics cooperation, the Brazilian Army will be providing military materiel to the GDF as well as facilitating contacts with Brazilian firms for the GDF to enter into equipment acquisition from them.
Additionally, there will be meetings of military doctors to exchange information and best practices on tropical diseases.
The cooperation in international affairs will see a continuation of the biannual bilateral staff conferences and the annual regional meetings between the two forces, the participation of Free Fall parachutist teams of both forces at military ceremonies in the respective countries, and the possibility of GDF engineers and infantry ranks being attached to Brazilian units engaged in peacekeeping missions.
The next Bilateral Staff Conference is slated for Brasilia in 2013.
The 6th Bilateral Staff Conference opened on Wednesday in Georgetown and sought to strengthen the growing relationship between the two armies.
