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Maduro complains

meeting with Granger

was “tense and difficult”

but he is happy with outcome

A release from the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

said Maduro was nonetheless happy that

the meeting had opened

a dialogue for the two countries

to work together in resolving the territorial controversy

over Guyana’s Essequibo region.

Maduro complains meeting with Granger was “tense and difficult” but he is happy with outcome

 

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has described

his meeting on Sunday night

with Guyana’s Head of State David Granger

as “tense and difficult”.

 

A release from the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs

said Maduro was nonetheless happy that the meeting

had opened a dialogue for the two countries

to work together

in resolving the territorial controversy

over Guyana’s Essequibo region.

 

The release said the meeting concluded with

“peace-diplomatic relations” being restored and

a decision to return ambassadors to their respective tasks.

 

Mr. Maduro reported that

the General Secretariat of the UN established

a special technical committee

that will visit Venezuela

in the context of the Geneva Accord

for a comprehensive work on the circumstances

and the current situation of

the Venezuelan claim on Guyana’s Essequibo.

 

The group had previously been prevented

from carrying out its probe in Venezuela.

 

“The Secretary-General is committed after that visit,

to do a study of all the options that gives us

the Geneva Agreement and Article 33 of the UN Charter.

 

Venezuela has insisted on the need to activate the good offices

which it is the final decision of consensus

between Guyana, Venezuela

and the Geneva Agreement and the General Secretariat,”

the release quoted Maduro as saying.

 

He said too,

“our peoples are destined to the brotherhood, to approach,

we love the brotherly people of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana,”

said Venezuelan President who reiterated that it was agreed

“to work together because there is no other way forward”.

 

The Venezuelan President said

he told the Guyana President to 

“let us look in the eyes, talk, let’s talk.”

 

President Maduro said he told Granger

that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

“has never been, nor will be, an imperialist country,

pro-imperialist, pro-colonialist.”

 

The meeting was held at the request of

the president of Venezuela

and in the context of the 70th General Assembly of the UN.

Both Ministers of Foreign Affairs

from Guyana and Venezuela were in attendance.

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Kudos to President Granger,good move to get the UN

involved this claim need to be settled,Guyana have

every right use it's natural resources in the county

of Essequibo for the benefit of the Guyanese people.

Django
Originally Posted by yuji22:

Granger should give him one kick. I never saw Granger that angry before.

 

Good for Granger, he is defending our Guyana.

Any move against Guyana would be costly for Venezuela.  Guyana needs to push for arbitration as it's more in Guyana's favor.  Granger should request mediation from Russia as they supported the UK in 1899 and is now a friend of Venezuela.

FM
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by yuji22:

Granger should give him one kick. I never saw Granger that angry before.

 

Good for Granger, he is defending our Guyana.

Any move against Guyana would be costly for Venezuela.  Guyana needs to push for arbitration as it's more in Guyana's favor.  Granger should request mediation from Russia as they supported the UK in 1899 and is now a friend of Venezuela.

Suddenly Granger isn't destroying Guyana by refusing to acquiesce to Maduro.

 

Interesting.

FM
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by yuji22:

Granger should give him one kick. I never saw Granger that angry before.

 

Good for Granger, he is defending our Guyana.

Any move against Guyana would be costly for Venezuela.  Guyana needs to push for arbitration as it's more in Guyana's favor.  Granger should request mediation from Russia as they supported the UK in 1899 and is now a friend of Venezuela.

Baseman....

which part yuh don't understand....

PPP & PNC been talking for 50 years....

NO PROGRESS....

 

AFC-APNU

taking the matter to Court...

There is no more time to talk....

 

FM

The moment when Mr Ban reached out to join hands with Presidents Granger and Maduro.

The moment when Mr Ban reached out to join hands
with Presidents Granger and Maduro.
 pic

Maduro agrees…  Venezuela to accredit new Guyanese envoy  …agrees to restore ambassador in Georgetown

 

AFTER Guyana laid down “the facts” regarding the border controversy with Venezuela in a meeting with the United Nations Secretary General, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro agreed to backtrack on some of his earlier positions as Georgetown seeks a legal end to the controversy.

 

At a meeting convened by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon with President David Granger and Maduro in New York, the Venezuelan President agreed to send back his Ambassador to

Guyana

 

and to accredit the new Guyanese Ambassador Cheryl Miles.

He had put the accreditation of Miles on hold after complaining about statements Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge allegedly made to a Florida conference earlier this month.

 

Venezuela also agreed to accept a UN team in Caracas to investigate its claims that the 1899 award which settled the countries’ borders is null and void.

 

Afterwards, the team will report to the UN Secretary General for him to continue discussions to find a lasting solution to Venezuela’s claim.

 

At the meeting, President Granger made it clear that Guyana’s sole concern at this time is for a legal settlement to Venezuela’s claim. “All we said [last night] was factual about the territory, about the Venezuelan aggression, about the obstruction of Guyanese development.

 

“We just spoke with facts. We took the opportunity to reiterate that we must have a juridical settlement; it’s a legal problem, there must be a legal solution,” President Granger said after the meeting. “The Secretary General has a menu of measures which he cited. He knows very well it has reached a stage where there has to be further legal investigation,” the President added.

 

“We’re waiting on the Venezuelans to send their ambassador back to Georgetown. We’re waiting on the Venezuelans to grant agreement to the nominee of Guyana to be an ambassador

 

and we’re waiting on the United Nations team to Caracas to report back to the Secretary General and we’re available after that to have further negotiations, to have further discussions with the Secretary General.”

 

President Granger said Guyana was “very grateful” to the Secretary General for facilitating the meeting.

 

President Granger insisted that it is the Secretary General who has specific responsibilities for dealing with this matter, “and it was logical that we should come back to him and we’re very grateful that he facilitated the meeting today.”

 

The meeting with Maduro was the first the President has had since he was elected to office last May.

 

The men walked into the room in a sober mood and the Secretary General tried to diffuse the tension by joining their hands. But after they sat down for talks, it was down to “serious” talks, the Foreign Minister Greenidge said, describing the mood of the meeting as sombre.

 

 

Both sides had an opportunity to explain their positions. President Granger said the Venezuelan position is based on the Geneva agreement, “but they avoided the fact that the matter was resolved, was settled finally in 1899.

 

“The Venezuelans were unable to provide any evidence that the 1899 award was void, that it was null. “We, on our side, the Guyana side, we felt that the controversy was essentially a legal one and we asked for a legal solution. “So the Venezuelans really had no case,” President Granger said. Granger suggested that Venezuela had all the odds stacked up against it; that Venezuela was the one who initiated all the acts of provocation.

 

“It was the Venezuelans who withdrew their ambassador from Georgetown;

 

it was the Venezuelans who refused our nominee for an ambassadorship, Ms Cheryl Miles,” he said.

 

“It was the Venezuelans which held the military manoeuvres on the border,” Granger added, referring to the military build-up on the western frontier.

 

Further, he said it was the Venezuelans who promulgated the decree on the 26th of May,” namely the decree in which Maduro sought to annex Guyana’s maritime space, including the area where American firm ExxonMobil discovered a “significant” oil field.

 

Added to that, the President said “it was the Venezuelans which sent a naval corvette into our waters on the 10th of October 2013,” referring to the case when the Venezuelan navy seized a U.S.-chartered oil survey ship from Guyana’s waters and escorted it to Margarita island.

 

Granger noted that Guyana has never refused to talk, noting that Maduro himself was in Guyana in August 2013.

 

“Guyana has always been willing to speak. Presidents have exchanged visits over the years but we have arrived at a situation where Venezuela is making a claim, a spurious claim, and it has no evidence to support the claim.”

 

During the meeting,

President Granger said he pointed out

that in the arbitration award of 1899,

Venezuela received 13, 000 square kilometres

of Guyanese territory “

and Mr Maduro could not deny that.”

 

Presidents David Granger and Nicolas Maduro are about to get down to talks facilitated by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Also in photo are the Foreign Affairs Ministers of both Guyana and Venezuela [Gordon Moseley photo)

Presidents David Granger and Nicolas Maduro are about to get down to talks facilitated by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Also in photo are the Foreign Affairs Ministers of both Guyana and Venezuela (Gordon Moseley photo)

 
 
FM
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Originally Posted by caribny:
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by yuji22:

Granger should give him one kick. I never saw Granger that angry before.

 

Good for Granger, he is defending our Guyana.

Any move against Guyana would be costly for Venezuela.  Guyana needs to push for arbitration as it's more in Guyana's favor.  Granger should request mediation from Russia as they supported the UK in 1899 and is now a friend of Venezuela.

Suddenly Granger isn't destroying Guyana by refusing to acquiesce to Maduro.

 

Interesting.

We have to support the dear leader in such testing times.  Baseman supports Guyana in its position.

 

But don't confuse it, PNC have/are causing much harm.

FM
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by caribny:
Originally Posted by baseman:
Originally Posted by yuji22:

Granger should give him one kick. I never saw Granger that angry before.

 

Good for Granger, he is defending our Guyana.

Any move against Guyana would be costly for Venezuela.  Guyana needs to push for arbitration as it's more in Guyana's favor.  Granger should request mediation from Russia as they supported the UK in 1899 and is now a friend of Venezuela.

Suddenly Granger isn't destroying Guyana by refusing to acquiesce to Maduro.

 

Interesting.

We have to support the dear leader in such testing times.  Baseman supports Guyana in its position.

 

But don't confuse it, PNC have/are causing much harm.

How so?

cain
Originally Posted by cain:
Originally Posted by baseman:
 

But don't confuse it, PNC have/are causing much harm.

How so?

Black man in power, so the oligarchs don't want to invest. At least that is what baseman claims.

 

He cannot cite what the APNU/AFC is actually doing to deter investment.

FM

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