Ambassador Dag Nylander, the Personal Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN) Antonio Guterres on the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela paid his second visit to Guyana over the period May 5-6, 2017,a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here said on Saturday.
Nylander met with a team headed by Carl Greenidge, Minister of Foreign Affairs, which included officials and advisers of the Ministry and representative of the Leader of the Opposition, Member of Parliament, Gail Teixeira.
The release said that discussions focused on the mandate of Nylander, a Norwegian, in this final year of the “good offices” process authorised by the Secretary General of the United Nations with a “strengthened mandate of mediation”.
Before demitting office last year, former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had outlined in his decision that