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Mar 11, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Just weeks before our much anticipated general and regional elections- March 15, 2015- the Government of Venezuela is, once again, echoing an all too familiar sound of discontent, to prevent our country from developing. The Venezuelan Government has written the Country Manager of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited, objecting to the dispatch of a rig to dig an exploratory oil well in the concession granted by the Government of Guyana.
It is not the first time that Venezuela has attempted to hinder Guyana’s development. There is a long and tedious history of this behaviour on the part of Venezuela, against our every attempt to explore and develop our resources in that particular area. Some time ago, Venezuela seized the RV Teknik Perdana which was conducting seismic surveys in Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone in October 2013.
Records in our national archives will show that Venezuela, under President Raúl Leoni Otero, published an advertisement just around mid- 60s, in the Times newspaper of London in 1968 that Essequibo belonged to Venezuela.
But in this moment of a real challenge by Venezuela to affect Guyana’s development we as a nation as a people need to find the most appropriate approach to address it.
As yet, the current government has been unable to prevent Venezuela from scaring away potential investors to invest in that region.
More, the PPP/C administration has made some very serious mistakes in the way it has handled our foreign policy. Recall Government’s position on the United Kingdom/ Argentina situation over Falkland Islands. Recall Guyana’s abstention at UN on a crucial vote involving Russia against Crimea. Recall government’s treatment of US Ambassador Brent Hardt and UK High Commissioner Andrew Ayre on their encouragement to the government on strengthening the pillars of democracy in Guyana.
The point is that government’s actions and behaviour in the past, in foreign affairs, could be a cog in the wheel to mobilizing much- needed international support to its territorial cause.
I believe that it will take the strong and strategic leadership of Presidential Candidate Mr. David Granger, the solid coalition- APNU-AFC —and the unswerving support of every Guyanese to address this aggression by Venezuela.
Mr. Granger, with his understanding and knowledge of history and international relations, his military discipline and experience and his ability to stimulate and begin a national conversation on this issue, is very well placed, at this moment, to deal with this daunting challenge to our territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
Even so, Mr. Granger continues to support the government to protect Guyana’s territorial integrity. I have noted his substantive response to this challenge.
I am positive that Mr. David Granger and the APNU-AFC will keep Guyana safe from the hands of those, who are seeking to grab our resource- rich areas and to prevent us from developing as a nation.
Patricia Chase- Green
Deputy Mayor
Georgetown

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