La China Continuará con su Ayuda Militar Guyana

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China to continue providing military aid to GDF

Posted By Stabroek staff On July 29, 2010 @ 5:14 am In Local News |

China will continue to provide military assistance to the GDF under a Five-Year Guyana Defence Force and People’s Liberation Army training cycle following a recent visit to that country by an official military delegation.

Chief of Staff Commodore Gary Best and a delegation from the GDF visited the People’s Republic of China from June 25 to July 6, a GDF press release said.

Among a number of agreements, the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation (CATIC) will train command and instructor pilots and engineers of the GDF Y-12 aircraft. Training will be conducted locally and is expected to boost the force’s ability to maintain the aircraft.

CATIC will also be covering costs for the upgrade of the Y-12 which now has an upgrade kit that would enable it to do maritime surveillance in Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

In addition, the People’s Liberation Army will send a team to train members of the GDF Band Corps in music.

The agreements will be realized through direct liaison between the GDF and the People’s Liberation Army through the Chinese Embassy in Georgetown, the release stated.

The GDF delegation had fruitful discussions with their Chinese counterparts, the release noted, and the high point was a meeting with General Chen Bingde, Chief of General Staff of the People’s Liberation Army of China.

The delegation’s stay in China included a visit to the First Solares Coy Limited, a solar water heating company that supplies the Chinese Armed Forces. They also visited the People’s Liberation Army Navy Command College, the Third Guard Division of the Beijing Military Region and CATIC, the defence dealer in aviation products.

The delegation also visited several places of cultural and historical importance.

According to the release, the visit to China presented another occasion to further strengthen the bilateral relationship between the People’s Liberation army and the GDF and to explore future opportunities for training and military assistance.

Nota del editor del blog: Al referenciarse a la República Cooperativa de Guyana se deben de tener en cuenta los 159.500Km2, de territorios ubicados al oeste del río Esequibo conocidos con el nombre de Guayana Esequiba o Zona en Reclamación sujetos al Acuerdo de Ginebra del 17 de febrero de 1966.

Territorios estos sobre los cuales el gobierno Venezolano en representación de la Nación venezolana se reservo sus derechos sobre los territorios de la Guayana Esequiba en su nota del 26 de mayo de 1966 al reconocerse al nuevo Estado de Guyana .

“...por lo tanto, Venezuela reconoce como territorio del nuevo Estado, el que se sitúa al este de la margen derecha del río Esequibo y reitera ante la comunidad internacional, que se reserva expresamente sus derechos de soberanía territorial sobre la zona que se encuentra en la margen izquierda del precitado río; en consecuencia, el territorio de la Guayana Esequiba sobre el cual Venezuela se reserva expresamente sus derechos soberanos, limita al Este con el nuevo Estado de Guyana, a través de la línea del río Esequibo, tomando éste desde su nacimiento hasta su desembocadura en el Océano Atlántico...”