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Oct 19, 2013 News
… Coordinates were being recorded every minute – Dr Luncheon
Guyana is maintaining that the oil survey vessel that Venezuela recently detained and has since released was snatched from local waters and the evidence is in the logged coordinates.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon, speaking with media operatives hours before the Venezuelan and Guyanese diplomats met in Trinidad and Tobago, said that given the very nature of the work being done by the vessel, its coordinates were being logged with each passing minute.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs following the seizure of the vessel last week Thursday had released the coordinates of the vessel at the time of the interception.
According to Ministry, the MV Teknik Perdana, was located at 10 21.0745 N, 57 31.1057W.
Dr Luncheon told media operatives that the vessel was engaged in seismic survey work and as such, the reports of the seismic investigations would be meaningless save and except the precise location is identified.
He said that at all material times the location of that vessel was being capture “second by second, minute by minute, hour by hour.”
According to Dr Luncheon, there can be no question as to where the vessel was when it was accosted.
Regarding the immediate fate of the vessel and the survey it was undertaking for Andarko, the company with a prospecting licence to search for oil in the region, Dr Luncheon was unable to provide definitive answers.
He said that this would be determined through the bilateral negotiations which commenced between Guyana and Venezuela on Thursday last in Trinidad and Tobago.
At that meeting the two countries agreed to explore mechanisms within the context of international law to address the issue of maritime delimitation.
The Guyana delegation comprised Foreign Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett; Robert Persaud, Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment; Elizabeth Harper, Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ambassador Rudolph Collins, Adviser; Keith George, Guyana’s Ambassador to Suriname; Audrey Jardine Waddell, Guyana’s Ambassador to UNASUR; and Newell Dennison, Deputy Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission
They also agreed that a technical team would meet within four months to exchange views on how such delimitation could proceed.
Dr Luncheon did speculate that given the harrowing experience which the captain and crew endured he wouldn’t be surprised if the vessel is currently heading to Panama.
“One would have to concede some sympathy for heading for home having endured such a situation.”
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