Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro yesterday said he had asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for U.N. mediation in his country’s century-old border controversy with Guyana, Reuters reported.
His request follows an international campaign mounted by the Granger administration to expose a maritime decree issued by Venezuela on May 26, 2015 seeking to swallow up a large portion of Guyana’s Atlantic sea front.
That decree, which has now been superseded by a less offensive one, has seen strong statements by President David Granger in Parliament, at a recent Caricom Heads of Government summit in Barbados, at a gathering of Mercosur leaders in Brazil and at the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies in the US decrying Venezuelan aggression against Guyana.
Reuters said that the controversy over the Essequibo was discussed by Maduro and
