Former President Donald Ramotar says that the PPP/C will stand firmly with the APNU+AFC government as it relates to the Venezuela controversy.
At a press briefing held at Freedom House yesterday, Ramotar said that the Arbitral Award of 1899 on Guyana’s border was binding and that “we are going to support the government on the issue of the sovereignty of this country.”
He said that “just at the end of our term in office we had come to the conclusion that the Good Offices Process was not working and we were approaching the United Nations to have a look at another kind of mechanism to bring this matter to a final conclusion, but we have in the past when the PNC was in government and we were in the opposition from 1964-1992, we had supported the government on this issue and now our position remains the same, we stand with the government and we stand in total unity on this issue of Venezuela’s claim on our territory.”
