{"id":13766,"date":"2023-11-09T15:38:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=13766"},"modified":"2023-11-09T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T15:38:22","slug":"prime-minister-mark-phillips-addresses-oas-on-venezuela-border-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/prime-minister-mark-phillips-addresses-oas-on-venezuela-border-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Mark Phillips Addresses OAS on Venezuela Border Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Phillips delivered a crucial address during an Extraordinary Special Session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The session was convened at the request of the Government of Guyana to provide an update on the ongoing controversy with Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his address, Prime Minister Phillips emphasized that Venezuela&#8217;s claim to the Essequibo Region of Guyana poses a direct threat to Guyana&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He assured representatives at the OAS session that Guyana is diligently following the necessary legal procedures to bring an end to the border dispute with Venezuela.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, reiterated the organization&#8217;s support for a peaceful resolution of the controversy in accordance with the principles of international law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that the OAS values the message of peace and will not engage in any actions that threaten the peace and security of the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Phillips expressed gratitude on behalf of the people and government of Guyana for the OAS&#8217;s support, as well as that of the international community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), along with the United States and Brazil, reaffirmed their unwavering support for Guyana and advocated for a peaceful settlement of the controversy in alignment with international law during the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Reported by Kristin Josiah for NCN News<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Mark Phillips delivered a crucial address during an Extraordinary Special Session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Wednesday. The session was convened&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351,359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-top-picks"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13768,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13766\/revisions\/13768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}