Chile is urging respect for existing treaties including those related to territory and Santiago is not in favour of third parties’ involvement in issues such as the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy unless this is explicitly requested by both States.
“Our position has always been very clear, first respect for international law, existing treaties and when there are disputes, the peaceful resolution of them and we understand issues like that to be strictly bilateral and to be solved by the two countries concerned unless the two countries explicitly request the facilitation, the participation of the mediation of a third actor, be it an international organisation or another body including third countries,” the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Heraldo Muñoz told Stabroek News in an interview at his office in Chile’s capital Santiago on Friday.
He was asked about Santiago’s views on the Guyana/Venezuela territorial controversy. Muñoz, who served as UN Assis-tant Secretary-General and UNDP Director for Latin America and the Caribbean since May 2010 before being appointed to his current post by
