Even as Guyanese soldiers begin two days of military manoeuvres Venezuela’s Congress Speaker Diosdado Cabello yesterday said that President Nicolas Maduro is willing to meet President David Granger in New York.
According to Venezue-lan newspaper El Univer-sal, Cabello insisted that Essequibo is his country’s territory, while claiming that Granger and Maduro had been invited to a meeting, convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
According to El Univer-sal the meeting is likely to take place on Sunday in New York on the fringes of the UN General Assembly.
Meanwhile, according to a press release, the GDF exercises are scheduled to begin early today; two days after Chief of Staff Brigadier Mark Phillips said that servicemen were being placed on alert.
The manoeuvres include a parachute display, Battle Muster at Camp Stephen-son, while the Coastguard will also be doing tactical manoeuvres from the East Coast to the Demerara Harbour Bridge.
Tomorrow, from 5.30 am the troops at Base Camp Ayanganna will march from Plaisance and those from Camp Stephenson will march from Providence to Camp Ayanganna. The two bases will meet up at the corner of Sandy Babb Street to form one body and Phillips will take the salute there after which he will address them at Base Camp Ayanganna.
There will also be route marches in Linden and Anna Regina.
On Wednesday, Phillips had made it clear that while all army bases are on alert, there are no
