Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo does not believe that the United States is concerned about corruption allegations against him made to the UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) , because if Washington did have a concern it would address them directly with this country.
“If Washington is concerned about it, they will raise it directly with us. We have that engagement often with the senior leadership from the White House and from the State Department, from Treasury… everywhere else. These matters have never surfaced even after, you recall, APNU sent Vice President [Kamala] Harris a long dossier they had at the Washington conference. They met with them here and they raised all the same issues about racism and we’re corrupt, and everything else,” Jagdeo yesterday said in response to questions from Stabroek News.
He said that he believes that when US-nominated candidate Laurence Helfer, formulated and posed the questions at a review of Guyana’s periodic report in Geneva, Switzerland, it was from a background of being “contaminated” by persons affiliated with the opposition.
