Georgetown: After meeting with President David Granger and the President Nicolas Maduro on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will be in Guyana Sunday where he will meet with Government officials at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.
The UN official will be on an in-transit flight out of Guyana. He is responsible for coming up with a solution to the border controversy with Venezuela.
The border between the countries was set by an international tribunal in 1899, in an award the parties, including Venezuela, had agreed would be a final settlement.
Since the recent belligerence from Venezuela, moves have been made by the international community, including the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, to push for a peaceful resolution of the issue.
A UN team, which was dispatched by the UN Secretary General to which both countries had appealed for help, visited Guyana in August and discussed options under the Geneva Agreement that had been agreed to in 1966, for a resolution of Venezuela’s continuous contention that the Arbitral Award of 1899 was null and void.
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