President David Granger yesterday met with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and reiterated Guyana’s wish for a juridical settlement of the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela.
According to a statement released by the Ministry of the Presidency, the meeting took place at the UN Headquarters, in New York, to update the Secretary General on the border controversy and for a report on his attempts to resolve the issue.
Granger, it said, restated that Guyana has always believed that what was at issue in the controversy is legal in character and has to be settled by a legal process. As a result, he reiterated that Venezuela’s legal contention that the