Even as the foreign ministers of Guyana and Venezuela are said to be arranging to meet this week with a view to hammering out an agreement on the release of the captain and crew of the research vessel Teknik Perdana, a Venezuelan newspaper is reporting that the captain is to face charges in that country.
The vessel was intercepted by a Venezuelan frigate last Thursday as it was carrying out survey works in Guyana’s Exclus-ive Economic Zone (EEZ), according to Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The vessel was then directed to shut off its survey equipment and ordered to proceed to the Isla Margarita, where it arrived on Sunday.
According to El Univer-sal online, “the Attorney General’s Office of Vene-zuela is to file charges against the
