CARICOM Foreign Ministers reaffirm support for Guyana’s territorial integrity

caricomCARICOM Foreign Ministers have welcomed Venezuela’s decision to receive a United Nations Technical team which will provide recommendations to the UN Secretary-General on the way forward to a full and final solution to the Guyana/Venezuela territorial controversy.

The Council for Foreign Ministers of the Caribbean Community (COFCOR) met in the margins of this week’s 70th Session of The United Nations General Assembly in New York, and was briefed by Guyana’s Vice-President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Carl Greenidge on the recent developments with respect to the territorial controversy with Venezuela. The Ministers noted that the decision by CARACAS to receive the UN Team in the shortest possible time will hasten the efforts aimed at bringing that controversy to an early end.

The Ministers welcomed Sunday’s meeting convened by the UN Secretary-General with the Presidents of Guyana and Venezuela and noted that Venezuela’s decision to return its ambassador to Guyana and to grant agreement to the Ambassador Designate of Guyana to Venezuela would set a firm basis for the return of full-fledged diplomatic relations between Guyana and Venezuela.

The Ministers noted Guyana’s call for a juridical solution to the controversy, given the divergence of views between the two sides about the validity and nullity of the Arbitral award of 3rd October 1899. They underscored the need for the Caribbean region to be maintained as a Zone of Peace.

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5 Comments

  1. William Mc Lawrence
    October 2, 2015

    Good news is no news… Venezuela still have not relinquished their claims to the Essequibo Region of Guyana. This is all a stalling tactic by the Venezuelans because they realize most countries would condemn any move to invade Guyanese territory. It’s only when they publicly announce to the world that the Essequibo Region rightfully belongs to Guyana and that they have absolutely no interest there that I will begin to take them seriously.

  2. too late
    October 1, 2015

    so what skerrit saying?

  3. Doc. Love
    October 1, 2015

    I would like to know who represented Dominica and what was our position. Did we support or not.

    • Tutankhamen
      October 1, 2015

      I’d like to know too. The PM has been strangely MUM on this… I understand his predicament in this issue but he’s been so vocal in his support for Venezuela in all issues in the past, this should be no different. Speak up Skerro!! You fraid man?

      • October 2, 2015

        I suppose if I were Skerrit I wouldn’t say anything either. Maduro has put him in a no-win situation. If he supports Maduro’s hostile manoeuvres, he’s embarrassing himself on the international stage and providing fuel to the UWP. If he supports the Guyanese, he alienates a major donor country and contradicts the praise he just gave Maduro for bringing relief supplies to Dominica.

        The only solution here is long term, and that’s to wean ourselves off of Venezuelan support. If we need support from development partners, then fair enough, but let’s court democratic countries instead of dictatorships.

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