Russia has agreed to a meeting with the government here on Moscow’s false statements that a British military base was being built on an Essequibo River island to train Venezuelan refugees to destabilise the Nicholas Maduro government.
“They responded and we have agreed that there will be a meeting with the Foreign Minister [Sergei Lavrov],” Foreign Secretary Carl Greenidge said at a press conference at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Takuba Lodge, yesterday. He said that he could not say what the nature of the talks will be but emphasised that Guyana holds firm to its stance that the statements are false.
Last month, during a weekly press briefing that was broadcast live by Russia Today, Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova said that “the British continue constructing a military base at the estuary of the Essequibo River.”
