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Guyana – Venezuela dispute: Maduro invites Granger to ‘one-on-one’ meeting
Maduro denounced attempts to revive conflict between Venezuela and Guyana noting that “Venezuela has the legal and historical reason to make the claim for Guyana Essequibo, and that only through international law and the Geneva Accord can it finally resolve this situation,” the statement said.
In July, Guyana’s Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge said Guyana is not open to having a one-on-one meeting with Maduro. Greenidge said, “We are not meeting one-on-one, there is no proposal to meet one-on-one – what would we meet one-on-one for?” The Foreign Affairs Minister did however state that there is adequate room at the level of the United Nations for discussions to be conducted.
In May, Maduro issued a Decree that included all the Atlantic waters off the Essequibo Coast.
The purported annexation of the waters off Essequibo takes in the oil-rich Stabroek Block, where American oil giant Exxon Mobil said it found a “significant” reserve of high quality crude oil.
ExxonMobil said the discovery was made in one of the two wells it dug, in the Liza-1 drill site, which realized more than 295 feet of high-quality oil-bearing sandstone. -(CMC)
