Opposition calls for ‘robust and programmatic diplomacy’ to neutralise Venezuelan aggression

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton (centre) speaking at the APNU+AFC press conference on Friday at right is AFC Leader Khemraj Ramjattan. At left is shadow foreign minister Amanza Walton-Desir.

The Opposition APNU+AFC, while taking pains to assure of its commitment to a unified front on the territorial controversy between Guyana and Venezuela, has been less than pleased with the effort put forward by the administration in its response to Caracas’s latest round of aggression.

As such, it has put forward several courses of actions that it feels the government should engage in as part of a more effective response, one of these being the need for a robust and programmatic diplomacy.

It was pointed out in a release on Friday, following a press conference,  that it is generally agreed that Guyana faces grave danger to its territorial integrity and sovereignty as a result of the mobilization of military forces on its border by its western neighbour and in particular by the proposed Referendum on December 3rd.