Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Monday met with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in New York to discuss the Good Offices process.
During the meeting, it was agreed to reappoint Professor Norman Girvan as the secretary general’s personal representative in the process, at the joint request of the governments of Guyana and Venezuela.
Professor Girvan was first appointed to the position in 2010, but his tenure came to an end in September.
According to a release, the Good Offices process is charged with finding a solution to the Guyana-Venezuela controversy that arose from the Venezuelan contention that the Arbitral Award of October 3, 1899, that definitively established the boundary between Guyana and Venezuela, is null and void. The process commenced in 1989 and was established pursuant to Article IV of the Geneva Agreement of February 17, 1966. The United Nations secretary general is the good officer.
The minister thanked the secretary general for the continued support of the United Nations and also took the opportunity to update the secretary general on the very good relations that exist between Guyana and Venezuela.
