00:00 In Venezuela, on Monday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iván Gyal, and the Central Vice President
00:04 of Communication, Culture and Tourism, Fernán Yáñez, held a media meeting in order to
00:09 explain Venezuela's position on the territorial controversy with Guyana over the territory
00:15 of Guyana-Esquiva.
00:16 During the event, Foreign Minister Gyal ratified that the only way to solve the dispute over
00:21 the Guyanese-Guyana-Esquiva is by allowing for a peaceful and diplomatic dialogue between
00:26 Venezuela and Guyana.
00:29 In this sense, they also offered details on the dialogue to be held on Thursday in St.
00:33 Vincent and Ignatius between the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, as his counterpart
00:38 of the cooperative Republic of Guyana, Irfan Ali, in order to discuss matters related to
00:43 the border controversy over the Guyana-Esquiva.
00:51 On the other hand, Venezuela's Executive Vice President, José Rodríguez, praised
00:55 the lags in CARICOM's efforts, as well as those leaders of the region, to bring about
01:00 the upcoming dialogue between Venezuela and Guyana on the Esquiva.
01:05 "Therefore, we, as the High Commission, once in place, are going to proceed to define the
01:16 methodology to immediately consult on what should be the Venezuelan proposal.
01:24 The meeting to be held this Thursday in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
01:31 From Venezuela, we have welcomed CARICOM and CELAC's efforts and those of President Lula,
01:38 Prime Minister Ralf Gonsalves and Prime Minister Schiri, who have joined their endeavors so
01:46 that Venezuela's request for direct negotiation with Guyana be possible this Thursday.
01:54 We are grateful that this request has been heard.
01:59 That is the way, the way of peace, the way of neighboring negotiations that should prevail
02:07 between neighboring countries."
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