LONDON, CMC – The UK is sending the Royal Navy patrol ship, HMS Trent, to Guyana in a present of British assist for the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) nation concerned in a border dispute with Venezuela.
“HMS Trent will go to regional ally and Commonwealth accomplice Guyana later this month as a part of a collection of engagements within the area throughout her Atlantic patrol job deployment,” a Ministry of Defence spokesperson stated.
The offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent is in Barbados over Christmas and can head to Guyana for actions carried out at sea. The ship is predicted to dock someplace apart from Georgetown.
Earlier this month, the International Workplace Minister for the Americas and Caribbean, David Rutley, visited Guyana and later stated, “The border challenge has been settled for over 120 years,” including, “Sovereign borders should be revered wherever they’re on this planet.”
The US Military’s Southern Command performed joint aerial operations with the GDF earlier this month. However neither the GDF nor the Irfaan Ali authorities in Georgetown has made any announcement concerning the arrival of the patrol ship.
Guyana and Venezuela declare possession of the Essequibo county, which makes up about two-thirds of Guyana and is residence to 125,000 of the nation’s 800,000 residents.
On December 3, Venezuela staged a referendum by which it stated 95 p.c of the votes forged had been in assist of the annexation of the Essequibo area, and President Nicolas Maduro introduced quickly afterward that overseas corporations working in Essequibo must withdraw inside three months.
He stated he was additionally proposing a particular regulation to ban all corporations that work beneath Guyana concessions from any transaction and that Caracas would create a navy unit for the disputed territory however that it could be based mostly in a neighboring Venezuelan state.
Earlier than the referendum, the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) dominated that Venezuela should not take any motion to grab Essequibo, which Guyana has administered for over a century.
The Joint Declaration of Argyle for Dialogue and Peace between Guyana and Venezuela, issued following talks in St. Vincent and the Grenadines earlier this month between President Dr. Irfaan Ali and President Maduro, additionally indicated that the 2 international locations agreed that “any controversies” between them shall be resolved by worldwide regulation, together with the Geneva Settlement dated February 17, 1966.”
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