Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro will address his country’s Parliament today on its new claims to Guyana’s maritime territory.
Maduro was scheduled to address the Parliament yesterday but this was rescheduled, Venezuelan state television VTV reported yesterday. VTV said that the sitting will take place at 10am today in the Federal Legislative Palace in Caracas.
Venezuelan newspaper El Universal also reported the rescheduling and it said Maduro will present his stance on the border controversy between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo. Maduro will present “a formal position on the historic claim of the dispute of the
