The Government of Guyana yesterday hailed the Geneva Agreement on the border controversy with Venezuela, whose 50th anniversary is being celebrated today, as part of the founding instruments of this country’s freedom.
In a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the government said it was not a coincidence that the 50th anniversary of the Agreement is occurring in the same year of Guyana’s 50th independence anniversary as the Geneva meeting represented the last failed effort by Venezuela to prevent this country’s independence.
Concluded between Britain and Venezuela, Guyana only became a
