Guyana, Venezuela to receive each other’s ambassador

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (centre) joins President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela (left) and President David Granger of Guyana in a three-way handshake at the United Nations headquarters in New York last evening. (UN photo)

Guyana and Venezuela last evening agreed to receive their respective ambassadors with Venezuela also accepting an investigative United Nations team which afterwards will report to the UN Secretary General for a decision on the way forward.

This means that agrément will be granted by Caracas to Guyana’s Ambassador designate Cheryl Miles and Venezuela will send an ambassador to Georgetown. Venezuela’s top diplomat in Guyana, Reina Margarita Arratia Díaz, was recalled by President Nicolás Maduro in July this year.

A press statement from the United Nations last evening said that Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon held a trilateral