Georgetown: Deliberations between Guyana and Venezuela ended late Thursday night with an agreement that a technical team would meet within four months “to explore mechanisms within the context of international law to address the issue of maritime delimitation.”
Guyana’s delegation comprised Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett; Mrs. Elizabeth Harper, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ambassador Rudolph Collins, Robert Persaud, Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment; Adviser; Keith George, Guyana’s Ambassador to Suriname; Mr. Newell Dennison, Deputy Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and Audrey Jardine Waddell, Guyana’s Ambassador to UNASUR.
The high level teams met in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday October 17, following the seizure of a US Ship in Guyana’s waters by the Venezuelan navy on October 10.
A joint statement released by the foreign ministers stated that both sides recognised that the delimitation of the maritime boundaries between their two States remains an outstanding issue.
In this regard, Ministers Rodrigues-Birkett and Elias Jaua Milano agreed to explore mechanisms within the context of international law to address the issue of maritime delimitation, the statement said.
“They reiterated that dialogue and cooperation are the means for a peaceful solution of differences between States.
“The Ministers ratified all the points of the Joint Declaration of September 30, 2011 in Port of Spain, signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and the then Minister of the People’s Power for External Relations of the Bolivarian Republic, Nicolas Maduro Moros.” Nicolas Maduro Moros is now the head of state in Venezuela.
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