Clean and united hands needed to protect Guyana - Sir Shridath

Clean and united hands needed to protect Guyana – Sir Shridath

Jun 07, 2020 News

One of the country’s senior advisors on the Venezuela border case currently engaging the International Court in The Hague is warning that Guyana must stand united.

Sir Shridath Ramphal

Yesterday, as pressure mounts on Guyana to swear in a new president earliest, former Attorney General, Sir Shridath Ramphal, was clear that the current political situation from the March 2 Elections which has not concluded, is unacceptable.
“As Guyana nears the tipping point of its ‘elections crisis’, I plead with all my fellow Guyanese not to allow our motherland to descend into the darkness of denial of the rule of law and regularity.”
A former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Sir Shridath stressed that as Guyanese, “we owe it to ourselves, to the Caribbean Community which we have helped to bring to life, and to the wider global community whose respect we have earned as an enlightened democratic state – not to debase ourselves by descent into the pit of lawlessness.”
He noted that in a matter of weeks, the country will be appearing before the International Court of Justice “at the worthy instance of the Secretary-General of the United Nations to appeal for global justice under international law against menace to our national patrimony”.
Almost three-quarters of Guyana – of land and sea – is under threat, he said.
“We must protect it with clean and united hands. Let lawfulness prevail in our country; unless it does, all of Guyana – and all its people – are imperiled.”
The month-long recount is underway and is showing a healthy lead for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic, handing the Coalition a first term defeat, in the count concludes today.
However, the Coalition has insisted the electoral process is filled with fraud.
It would conflict to findings of the local and international community which lauded the process of March 2.

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