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13 junio, 2014 Guyana
Guyana continues to meet obligations under PetroCaribe –
Finance Minister
Noting that Guyana has concluded three debt compensation
agreements with Venezuela, Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh has said Guyana
continues to meet its obligations under the PetroCaribe arrangement.
Guyana’s debt to PetroCaribe was estimated at $198.27 million
at the end of 2013 as compared to US$364 million at the end of 2012. Guyana’s
debt to PetroCaribe is paid in paddy and rice as settlement for oil from
Venezuela.
“We continue to meet our obligations under PetroCaribe,” Dr
Singh told Guyana Times when contacted on Wednesday.
During his budget presentation in March, Dr Singh had also
said that Guyana’s external debt stock stood at US$1.2 billion, a reduction of
8.3 per cent from the previous year.
“This reduction was mainly as a result of Government
concluding two additional compensation agreements under the PetroCaribe
arrangement which saw US$281.1 million of oil debt effectively cancelled, [a
sum] equivalent to the value of rice and paddy exported by Guyana to Venezuela
from July 2011 to October 2013,” Dr Singh had told Parliament during his budget
presentation.
And last year, Dr Singh had stated that towards the end of
2012, Guyana had signed its “first debt compensation agreement with Venezuela
which reduced the Petrocaribe debt owed to that country by US$100.8 million, [a
sum] equivalent to the value of rice and paddy shipped from December 2009 to
July 2011”.
Only last week, Guyana Times reported that Government is
currently in talks with Venezuela on the possibility of exporting additional
products to the Spanish-speaking country under the PetroCaribe arrangement.
Talks ongoing
“Talks are going on right now,” Agriculture Minister, Dr
Leslie Ramsammy had said.
Minister Ramsammy said cash crops, vegetables, fruits,
medicine and building materials are just some of the products Guyana could
export to Venezuela, if talks go favourably with the Nicholas Maduro-led
Venezuelan Government.
Foreign Affairs Minister Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett also
confirmed to Guyana Times that the administration is in talks with Venezuela to
expand export.
“So far we are only exporting rice under the PetroCaribe
mechanism and discussions to supply additional items have not yet been
concluded,” Rodrigues-Birkett had stated.
Since last year, Government had said it was looking to move
beyond the new rice agreement under the PetroCaribe deal.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said the question on
whether Guyana should be concerned about the PetroCaribe agreement suddenly
ending due to the perceived political upheaval and declining economy in
Venezuela is premature.
“Government will continue to participate in PetroCaribe,”
Hinds had told Guyana Times.
PetroCaribe is an oil alliance of many Caribbean states with
Venezuela to purchase oil on conditions of preferential payment.
The alliance was launched on June 29, 2005 in Puerto La Cruz,
by Venezuela’s late President Hugo Chávez.
The payment system allows for purchase of oil on market value
for five to 50 per cent, up front, with a grace period of one to two years; the
remainder can be paid through a 17-25 year financing agreement with one per
cent interest if oil prices are above US$40 per barrel.
2005 La Guayana Esequiba – Zona en Reclamación. Instituto Geográfico
Simón Bolívar Primera Edición
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...”
LA GUAYANA ESEQUIBA
http://laguayanaesequiba.blogspot.com/2008/01/la-guayana-esequiba.html
Terminología sobre cómo
referenciar la Zona en Reclamación-Guayana Esequiba.
Mapa que
señala el Espacio de Soberanía Marítima Venezolana que se reserva, como Mar
Territorial mediante
el Decreto Presidencial No 1152 del 09 de Julio de 1968
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