Georgetown: President David Granger met with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and bilateral talks were held pertaining to Venezuela’s claims on Guyana’s territory.
This meeting was held Thursday at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, New York.
President Granger said he is seeking support from India regarding these threats. As such, the president noted that he will formally speak with Modi in November when they meet for another high-level meeting in Malta.
In his first address to the UN General Assembly next Tuesday, Guyana’s President said he plans to ask that bigger states help in guaranteeing the security of small states “to ensure world peace”.
During the month of September, President Granger said there has been a gradual build-up of armed forces on Guyana’s western frontier, including the deployment of tanks and missiles, and there has also been increase in the number of troops, “and the presence of armed patrol boats in the Cuyuni River, which of course is Guyana property”.
Granger insists that Guyana is interested in a lawful settlement to the controversy.
The President recently met with the Un Secretary General in Barbados and the two subsequently spoke on the phone. In addition, Mr Ban sent a delegation to Guyana and that delegation received the full cooperation of the government. Guyana’s case is that the UN Good Officers process, in which the UN appoints someone to mediate the controversy between the two countries, has failed and there is no more room for bilateral negotiations on the matter.
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