No link between shelving of Iranian mineral mapping, terror concerns

Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett

Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett has said that Iran’s mapping of Guyana’s mineral resources has been shelved but this has nothing to with allegations that Tehran was setting up terrorist cells here.

“The Iranians have promised that they will map our natural resources. It was a number of years ago but we didn’t move far with the whole issue because there are other countries that are also more experienced in this area… it has nothing to do … with this matter… we just didn’t move far with that,” Rodrigues-Birkett told Stabroek News.

In one of his several outreaches to the Middle East as a counter to thorny relations with the