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Barbados lauds planned Guyana/Venezuela meeting

Oct 16, 2013 News

A leading newspaper in Barbados, The Nation, has  described as encouraging , a planned meeting of foreign ministers to resolve the issue of Venezuela’s detention of a vessel commissioned by Guyana for oil exploration.
The vessel was released yesterday.
Guyana’s Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and her Venezuelan counterpart, Elias Jaua, are to meet in Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow for talks aimed at resolving the recent issue, but the newspaper’s editorial Tuesday is alluding to troubles at home that might be affecting the Venezuelan government’s ability to meaningfully pursue a resolution.
Noting Guyana’s contention that the United States-chartered seismic vessel was well within this country’s territorial jurisdiction last Thursday when the ship and crew were detained by Venezuelan border patrol, the paper said that this development is surprising and stands in sharp contrast to deepening of relations initiated by  the late President of that country, Hugo Chavez, “who sought to steer away from a pattern of hostilities by previous administrations in Caracas arising from Venezuela’s 19th century claim to about two-thirds of Guyana’s 83,000 square miles”.
The paper noted that Chavez’s successor , President Nicolas Maduro, appears to be walking in the late leader’s footsteps with continued good relations with Guyana, and just last month, “pledged firm friendship with Guyana and assured his Guyanese counterpart, Donald Ramotar, that his administration was firmly committed to stronger ties with the Government and the people of Guyana”.
But the paper has observed that Maduro has local detractors who are resisting his efforts at solving internal social problems, and this issue with Guyana is not helping his efforts on the home front.
“The tension has emerged at a time when Maduro is seeking approval of his country’s parliament to empower him with special powers to govern by decree to effectively deal with rampant corruption,” the Nation newspaper stated in the editorial comment.
Maduro’s ability to act on issues – including that concerning relations with Guyana – may be hamstrung because, as the newspaper observed, he was elected to power with a narrow majority following the untimely demise of Chavez .
The paper reported Maduro stating that embedded corruption in his country, “posed a serious threat to the government and nation at a time of spreading food shortages, frequent disruptions of electricity supply and soaring inflation”.
Nonetheless the newspaper expressed the hope that Guyana and Venezuela continue mending fences and not be side-tracked.
“The diplomatic initiative being sought by the foreign ministers of Guyana and Venezuela should not be compromised by the incident involving the Venezuelan naval ship and the oil-exploring vessel.”

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