No word from Foreign Ministry on agenda for talks with Venezuela

Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Ministry remains mum with respect to the agenda for today’s talks with Venezuelan officials on the seizure of a vessel in Guyana’s waters on October 10 and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh Jackson believes that the talks should be more weighted towards the maritime boundaries rather than the event of last Thursday.

Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett is to meet her Venezuelan counterpart Elias Jaua at 14:00 hours today in Port of Spain.

While the MV Teknik Perdana – the seismic survey ship on assignment for Anadarko Petroleum Corporation – was on Tuesday released with its