This December 6, at the request of the Guyanese side, Foreign Minister Hugh Todd held a telephone conversation with the Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Yván Gil, to discuss the issue of the territorial controversy, after the consultative referendum in defense of Guayana Esequiba last Sunday, December 3.
Through a statement published by Gil, he notes that “the Venezuelan side took the opportunity to update the government of Guyana on the overwhelming participation that the popular consultation had, generating an unappealable mandate for the Venezuelan institutions on the route to follow to resolve this territorial controversy, which is the Geneva Agreement signed between the parties in 1966.”
Furthermore, he indicated that the National Government expressed the need to stop actions to aggravate the controversy in the territory of Guayana Esequiba and agreed to keep communication channels open.
