The Belize–Guatemala and Guyana-Venezuela border issues were among agenda items discussed at the recent Caricom summit, according to a communique yesterday from the St Vincent meeting.
The Heads of Government noted that Guyana and Venezuela had initiated dialogue following a Venezuelan armed naval vessel’s detention on 10 October 2013, of the RV Teknik Perdana seismic vessel, which was under contract with Anadarko to conduct a multi-beam survey of the seafloor in Guyana’s exclusive economic zone.
They also noted that the foreign ministers of both countries met in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago on 17 October 2013 and had agreed that the two countries would explore mechanisms within the context of international law to address maritime delimitation. Their technical