PNC/R comments on Venezuela arms stockpile irrelevant

Tomado de ww.guyanachronicle.com del 05 de Octubre de 2008
- Office of the President
THE Office of the President (OP) late yesterday said it considers as irrelevant the call by the People’s National Congress Reform PNCR for the government to state its position on Venezuela’s arms stockpiling.
According to the Government Information Agency (GINA), OP said in a statement that it was only recently that Venezuela built up its arms after purchasing stock from Russia and China.
Noting that PNCR leader, Robert Corbin, at the Party’s weekly press briefing, called the military build-up a threat, and contended that Guyana’s territorial integrity could be jeopardized, GINA quotes OP as saying:
“…the PNC/R is criticising the government for not using diplomatic and other means to reject the Venezuelan build-up in the context of defending Guyana’s national interest,” and that the People’s Progressive Party/Civic Administration “subscribes to the United Nations Charter for territorial integrity and non-interference in the sovereign affairs of nations.”
The statement also made reference to Guyana’s membership of the South American Community of Nations, of which the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is also a founding member, saying:
“For us, the issue of arms build-up by nations in UNASUR ought not to be identified and examined for the perspective of the superpower’s dictate.”