GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CM—President Irfaan Ali has held talks with the brand new United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. The discussions on Monday coated plenty of areas.
“I had the chance to talk with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. I reiterated our assist for the prolonged partnership in power, safety, democracy, and Regional prosperity,” Ali mentioned in a quick publish on his Fb web page.
Nevertheless, US State Division spokesman Tammy Bruce mentioned the discussions addressed “the unlawful migration disaster and agreed to deal with this regional crucial and problem collectively. “The Secretary affirmed the US’ steadfast assist of Guyana’s territorial integrity within the face of Nicolás Maduro and his cronies’ bellicose actions,” Bruce added.
Guyana and Venezuela have a long-standing border dispute, with Caracas claiming possession of the Essequibo—an oil-rich area that makes up about two-thirds of Guyana and is residence to 125,000 of its 800,000 residents.
The 2 nations are earlier than the ICJ in regards to the Arbitral Award of October 3, 1899 … which is pending earlier than it.
The case, filed by Guyana in March 2018, seeks the courtroom’s choice on the validity of the Arbitration Award that lastly decided the land boundary between the 2 nations. The courtroom has already dominated that it has jurisdiction over the controversy and can resolve on the case’s deserves.
The dialogue got here as Colombia backed down from refusing to simply accept deportees from the US on Sunday after President Donald Trump threatened to impose stiff tariffs on items getting into the US from Colombia.
The White Home mentioned the risk was a warning to different nations, together with these within the Caribbean, that will decline to simply accept deportees as a part of Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Colombia President Gustavo Petro had declined to simply accept on Sunday two US army plane carrying Colombian deportees. Nonetheless, he later capitulated after Trump threatened to impose as much as 50 p.c tariffs on Colombian items getting into the US.
“We’ve overcome the deadlock with the US authorities,” mentioned Colombian International Minister Luis Gilberto Murillo.
“We’ll proceed to obtain Colombians who return as deportees, guaranteeing them first rate situations as residents topic to rights.”
Meantime, the president of Haiti’s transitional presidential council on Sunday described as “catastrophic” the Trump administration’s plans to deport Haitians in mass or to curtail support to the violence-wracked, impoverished, French-speaking Caribbean nation.
On the Presidential marketing campaign path, Trump threatened mass deportation of Haitians and different migrants residing illegally within the US.
The US State Division mentioned Secretary Rubio additionally spoke on Monday with the International Minister of the Dominican Republic, Roberto Alvarez, “to reaffirm the US’ robust partnership with the Dominican Republic and to debate his upcoming go to to Santo Domingo.
“Secretary Rubio thanked the Dominican Republic for agreeing to host the following Summit of the Americas and Cities Summit,” the State Division mentioned, including that Rubio additionally mentioned with Alvarez “the necessity to strengthen hemispheric safety, together with in Haiti.”
Within the wake of the brand new US international coverage agenda, United Nations Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres referred to as on the Trump administration on Monday to think about “extra exemptions” to a directive that pauses practically all international support for 90 days.
The UN famous that Trump’s government order every week in the past referred to as for all international support to be re-evaluated to make sure that it complies along with his new international coverage priorities.
The UN mentioned the US authorities is the world’s largest single donor of support, disbursing round US$72 billion in help throughout 2023.
The UN additionally mentioned that it reportedly supplied greater than 40 p.c of all humanitarian support accounted for by the UN in 2024.
