Foreign Minister Yván Gil receives Style Copies from Guyana's designated Ambassador to Venezuela
MPPRE Press
Published at: 02/02/2024 03:38 PM
The Minister of Popular
Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, received this Friday the Style
Copies of the designated ambassador of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana
in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Richard Van West Charles, as part of
the protocol of diplomatic accreditation in the country.
Through his
account on the social network X, the Foreign Minister indicated that he will work in collaboration
with the new ambassador “and his team to improve effective communication”
between Caracas and Georgetown, in the midst of the territorial controversy over Guiana Essequiba.
On January 25, Gil met in Brazil with his Guyanese counterpart, Hugh Todd, for the
installation of the first binational Joint Commission, agreed in the Argyle Declaration on December 14, to
address the controversy.
From the
Itamaraty Palace, headquarters of the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, the diplomats issued a Joint
Declaration, accompanied by representatives of the governments of
Brazil, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica.
This was the
first high-level meeting between the delegations of both countries since the
dialogue between Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his
Guyanese counterpart, Irfaan Ali, last December in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
Richard Van
West-Charles is a doctor of medicine, with a career of more than forty years
in public health and water resource management. His experience encompasses
executive, academic and consulting roles at the national and international levels.
Prior to his appointment in Caracas, he served as President of the
West Africa-South America Alliance Inc.
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