Guyana has written to the Secretary General of the United Nations indicating that after 25 years of the Good Officer process in the Venezuela border controversy this government is looking for other mechanisms which will bring relief.
After giving the keynote address at the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association Ltd midyear luncheon at the Pegasus Hotel yesterday, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge told Stabroek News: “The question to whether we have signalled to the Secretary General the answer is yes. We had some preliminary discussions, very preliminary. We have, in writing to the Secretary General, indicated to him that our impression, our strong view, is the Geneva Convention has been a fig leaf behind which the Venezuelans have engaged, in a sense, in disruptive, negative and in the extreme in the economic warfare against Guyana and therefore we can no longer embrace the mechanism of simply appointing another Good Officer because it seems not to contain Venezuela from either taking military action or from dealing with any specific problems.”
Stabroek News asked if Guyana had signalled to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that the Good Officer approach has
