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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

MP Charles: TT must strongly support Guyana in territorial dispute with Venezuela

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Chester Sambrano
484 days ago
20231024

VASHTI SINGH

The UNC is call­ing on the Gov­ern­ment to un­equiv­o­cal­ly sup­port fel­low CARI­COM state Guyana in its bor­der dis­pute with Venezuela. In a a me­dia re­lease, Na­pari­ma MP Rod­ney Charles said, “Al­ter­na­tive­ly, it must work vig­or­ous­ly to­wards a diplo­mat­ic res­o­lu­tion of the con­flict.”

MP Charles raised this con­cern fol­low­ing a plea by Guyana to the in­ter­na­tion­al com­mu­ni­ty for help giv­en Venezuela’s call in an up­com­ing De­cem­ber 2023 ref­er­en­dum for “a new Venezue­lan State con­sist­ing of Guyana’s Es­se­qui­bo Re­gion, which would be in­cor­po­rat­ed in­to the na­tion­al ter­ri­to­ry of Venezuela, and the grant­i­ng of Venezue­lan cit­i­zen­ship to the pop­u­la­tion”.

Charles said Cari­com has is­sued a strong state­ment in sup­port of Guyana re­quest­ing Venezuela to abide by in­ter­na­tion­al law.

“TT has re­mained silent. At the very least TT must lever­age our cur­rent good re­la­tions with Maduro to be an hon­est bro­ker to help re­solve the bor­der dis­pute.”

Charles said we can­not sit idly by, do noth­ing and hope for the best.

“That will not be in our long term in­ter­est. To­day it is Venezuela. To­mor­row it could be Trinidad and To­ba­go,” he said.

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