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Norman Girvan reappointed Good Officer
The United Nations (UN) has agreed for Jamaica-born Norman Girvan to continue handling the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela.
According to a release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett met with the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, in New York on Monday September 30 to discuss the Good Offices Process.
Norman Girvan
The Good Offices Process is charged with finding a solution to the Guyana-Venezuela controversy that arose from the Venezuelan contention that the Arbitral Award of October 3, 1899, that definitively established the boundary between Guyana and Venezuela, is null and void.
The process commenced in 1989 and was established according to the Geneva Agreement of February 17, 1966. The UN Secretary General is the Good Officer.
“The Secretary General has agreed to re-appoint Professor Norman Girvan as his Personal Representative in the Process, at the joint request of the Governments of Guyana and Venezuela. Professor Girvan was first appointed to the position in 2010, but his tenure came to an end in September 2013.”
Venezuela is laying claim to a large part of Essequibo and continental shelf in which fishing is taking place by Guyanese.
However, both governments have recommitted to the UN process to settle the issue.
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