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Caribbean & Central America - October 2011 (ISSN 1741-4458)
GUYANA-VENEZUELA: Guyanese UN application rekindles old spat
The second half of September saw the revival of historic tensions between the governments of Guyana and Venezuela over a disputed territory; however, the prompt intervention of Trinidad and Tobago, whose government called on both sides to hold talks in Port of Spain, eased tensions as quickly as they had risen with the foreign ministers of the two countries, Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett of Guyana, pledging to “negotiate the delimitation of maritime boundaries between the two States”.
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