Government is not expecting an answer to a request for a juridical settlement of the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela in the short term, according to President David Granger, who nonetheless is confident that United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is actively looking at the matter.
“He is fully engaged and I am confident that he will be able to within, maybe half a year or so, to identify the process. He is not going to resolve the problem but he has to identify the process which presumably would lead to a solution and in this regard he must… try to secure the compliance of the government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. So I wouldn’t hold my breath,” he said during a recording of “The Public Interest” television programme last Friday.
Granger told reporters that he is very “impressed” by the attitude of the current UN Secretary General,
