Georgetown- The Government News Agency is today reporting that Guyana has denied that it failed to inform Venezuela about its plan to apply to the United Nations for an extension of its continental shelf, beyond 200 nautical miles. A release issued by the foreign affairs ministry said a diplomatic note was issued to the Venezuelan embassy on May 13, 2009, with a copy of the preliminary information and data, which Guyana submitted to the UN Secretary General.
It said the document constitutes the executive summary of Guyana’s full submission to the commission on the limits of the continental shelf, except for the fact that it adjusted coordinates for the outer limits of the extension, based on additional seismic data obtained after May, 2009.
The release added that t
he government said Guyana’s submission of information and data pursuant to article 76 of the un convention on the law of the sea is without any prejudice to any future maritime delimitation exercise with neighbouring states. It noted that the good officers process of the UN Secretary General has a clear mandate as stated in the Geneva agreement of 1966.
The process relates to the resolution of the controversy that arose from the Venezuelan contention that the arbitral award of October 3, 1899, that definitively delimited the land boundary between Guyana and Venezuela, is null and void. However, the government says it values its relations with Venezuela and in this context, shared with that state, preliminary information and data in May, 2009 and the executive summary of its full submission.
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