It’s not a country that many Americans can find on a map, but Uzbekistan’s ambassador to the U.S. says that a raft of reforms enacted since 2016 make it worth another glance, especially from investors. Already, companies like Honeywell, Coca-Cola and General Electric are expanding production in the Central Asian nation of 33 million people, […]
Diplomats Get a Taste of Foreign Investment, Local Culture in Northwest Georgia
When in Rome, do as Romans do, the old cross-cultural adage goes. Diplomats visiting the far reaches of Northwest Georgia this week got a chance to put that into practice. The visit to Georgia’s Rome included stops at the Darlington School, a co-ed boarding school, along with a career academy, a home that played a […]
Jamaica’s Prime Minister Aims to Lure Georgia Trade Office Amid New Era of Growth
In the map of Georgia’s trade offices around the world, Jamaica’s prime minister has noticed a glaring omission: the Caribbean. During a visit to Atlanta and North Georgia over Easter weekend, Prime Minister Andrew Holness laid the groundwork for conversations he hopes to change that calculation for the state. After speaking at an awards ceremony […]
Millennium Gate’s French Flag Hung in Solidarity With Notre Dame Cathedral
When the first fire alarm at Notre Dame Cathedral went off at 6:20 p.m., April 15, Paris time, French Consul General Louis de Corail was huddled with France’s eight honorary consuls in a meeting shortly after noon at the Atlanta consulate in Buckhead. The honorary consuls represented cities throughout the Southeast and were in Atlanta […]
Liberian Official in Atlanta to Strengthen Hartsfield Ties and Prepare Ambassador’s Visit
Liberia’s ties with Atlanta continue to be strengthened through the efforts of Cynthia Blandford, the West African country’s active honorary consul general, under newly elected administrations both here and there. Through Ms. Blandford’s efforts, B. Elias Shoniyin, deputy minister of Liberia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, met with officials at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport during his […]
Canada’s Export Credit Agency to Launch Atlanta Office
Canada’s export credit agency, which backs and finances deals involving Canadian firms selling overseas, is launching an Atlanta office later this month. Export Development Canada, an agency similar to the Export-Import Bank of the U.S., has put its Southeast regional office, its 20th worldwide, within the Canadian consulate in Midtown. A launch reception will be held April […]
Kenya’s Ambassador Challenges U.S. to Match Chinese Investment and Promote People-to-People Exchanges
China president Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative, which has spread throughout the world including the African continent challenging the U.S.’s economic dominance, is proof enough of China’s ambitions. But last week even in Atlanta there were intimidations that a more dynamic role for the U.S. would be welcome in Africa if it upped its […]
Diplomats Learn How Georgia Tech’s Coda Building Orchestrates Innovation
Atlanta’s Consular Corps got a preview tour March 20 of the $355 million Coda building, the mother-of-all mixed-used developments in Midtown’s Technology Square. The diplomats visited while the finishing touches were being made on the 645,000 square feet of office space and the 22,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space to be housed by […]
Netherlands Consulate Unveiled With Focus on Georgia Job Creation
A new Netherlands Consulate General in Atlanta is looking to boost trade and investment with Georgia, supporting the job-creation goals of the state while unlocking further opportunities for Dutch companies. Already, Georgia’s relationship with the Netherlands accounts for 28,800 jobs in the state, and the more than 200 Dutch-owned facilities here helped attract a consulate […]
Ambassadors Hail ‘Progress’ From Trump’s North Korea Summit
President Donald Trump’s much-hyped summit last month with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi may have ended without any concrete agreements, but it still represents progress on the painstaking path toward denuclearization, U.S. and South Korean diplomats said in Atlanta this week. “Both sides now understand better each other’s position; also both sides want to […]
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