Tag: Venezuela/Guyana border dispute

• Monday, June 24th 2024 - 09:58 UTC

  Venezuelan FM contests remarks from Canadian Commissioner in Guyana

  

  Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil was heavily critical of Canada's stance regarding his country's territorial dispute with Guyana over the oil-rich Essequibo region and insisted Ottawa played a destabilizing factor in the Caribbean region. According to Gil, Canada's “failed” position served the interests of ExxonMobil.

• Friday, March 22nd 2024 - 09:52 UTC

  Venezuela's Parliament adds Essequibo to official maps

  

  Venezuela's National Assembly Thursday passed a law creating a new region in the oil-rich Essequibo territory under Guyanese control since the late 1800s on which Caracas claims sovereignty.

• Tuesday, December 26th 2023 - 07:09 UTC

  UK sends HMS Trent in support of Guyana

  

  The Royal Navy Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Trent has been dispatched to Guyana in a show of British support for the Commonwealth nation. Guyana is suffering threats of invasion and land grabbing by neighboring Venezuela which claims some two-thirds of the former British colony's territory.

• Wednesday, November 8th 2023 - 18:43 UTC

  Guyana asks The Hague court to stop Venezuelan referendum on the annexation of half of its territory

  

  Guyana has asked the UN's highest court to stop a Venezuelan referendum on the annexation of the Esequibo, half of its territory and its oil-rich offshore, a claim going back to colonial times.

• Thursday, December 27th 2018 - 04:58 UTC

  Venezuela calls US “interventionist” for backing Guyana's offshore oil exploration

  

  Venezuela’s foreign ministry on Tuesday described as “interventionist and disrespectful” U.S. comments on a weekend incident in which the country’s navy stopped two ships exploring for oil for Exxon Mobil off Guyana’s coast.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2018 - 10:30 UTC

  Venezuela rejects UN decision to take Guyana border controversy to The Hague

  

  Venezuela has rejected the decision made by the United Nations to refer the border controversy with Guyana to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, faithful to its historical tradition and in accordance with the Bolivarian Diplomacy of Peace, reiterates its firm disposition to defend the territorial integrity of our Homeland and maintain political negotiation based on the 1966 Geneva Accord, as the only way to reach a peaceful solution, practical and satisfactory for both parties and in favor of our Peoples,” the Venezuelan government said in a statement on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, January 17th 2018 - 22:37 UTC

  Falklands' lawmaker in Guyana to discuss self determination and border controversies

  

  Falkland Islands lawmaker MLA Ian Hansen made on Wednesday a courtesy call on Guyana's Minister of State Joseph Harmon at his office in the Ministry of Presidency, in Georgetown, the country's capital.

• Monday, February 29th 2016 - 09:16 UTC

  Esso to intensify oil exploration in Guyana's Maritime Zone

  

  Oil exploration efforts have intensified following the discovery of commercial quantities of oil in Guyana’s Maritime Zone. Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd. (EEPGL) has commenced a meteorological and oceanographic survey in the Stabroek Block, scheduled to be completed during May 2018.

• Wednesday, January 13th 2016 - 04:49 UTC

  Falklands' lawmaker in Guyana meets president Granger and talks self determination

  

  Falklands' lawmaker Ian Hansen currently visiting Guyana met with President David Granger to familiarize himself with local politics and secure Georgetown's views on the Islands' right to self determination.

• Thursday, November 5th 2015 - 07:02 UTC

  Mexico ready to purchase Guyana rice following Venezuela's refusal to renew exchange accord

  

  The Guyana government says Mexico has indicated a willingness to fast track an agreement to purchase paddy rice from the Caribbean country. A statement released by the Office of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said that Mexico’s Agriculture Minister Jose Calzada has given the assurance that he would fast track arrangements to buy Guyana’s paddy.