The Chinese Embassy Business Manager in Georgetown (Guyanese Capital), Huang Rui, declared during a press conference that his country’s position about the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela “is very clear.”
In this regard, he pointed out that “we hope and believe that the Government of Guyana and also that of Venezuela can resolve the issue through negotiations and hope that they can solve the border issue through friendly consultations and negotiations.”
Precisely, Rui’s position is Consona with what was raised in the Geneva Agreement, signed in 1966, where the political route of the negotiations is recognized to solve the historical claim of Venezuela against the Esequibo territory.
Such an approach is rejected by the current president of Guyana, Irfan Ali, who invokes the Paris arbitration award as a mechanism to get out of the conflict, being that said instrument was canceled by the Geneva agreement, ratified at the San Vicente meeting and the Granada -win To that controversy.
