Guyana-Venezuela border: No room for extending UN mediation process- Greenidge

Guyana on Wednesday virtually ruled out considering any request for an extension of time before the United Nations (UN) refers the border controversy with Venezuela to the World Court. Foreign Affairs Minister, Carl Greenidge indicated that Guyana was in no mood to entertain any request for more time beyond this year-end to decide whether the controversy should be taken to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “Right now, there is  in the Secretary General’s communication to the two countries a process and the process has time-lines and, notwithstanding our concerns about some of the ideas of the SG, we embraced the process on the understanding that it will be implemented in good faith by all parties including the United Nations,” he said. More…