With Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon’s term coming to an end on December 31st this year, Guyana plans to approach him during next month’s 71st Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly for a progress report on the country’s appeal for a juridical settlement of the border controversy with Venezuela.
“In the margins of the General Assembly, we plan to meet with his office. He will tell us where he is with the process because he had undertaken to do a review of progress and to advise on how he was proposing to move forward and that has to happen before he steps down,” Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge told Stabroek News last Friday.
Relations between Georgetown and Caracas have deteriorated over the last year since embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro issued a decree laying claim to most of Guyana’s Atlantic waters.