Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Guyanese President Irfaan Ali meet face to face in St. Vincent and the Grenadines to discuss the two countries' territorial dispute over the Essequibo. teleSUR
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00:00 And we would like to send this to the Grenadines for the high-level meeting between Venezuela
00:08 and Guyana over the Ezequiel voice taking place today.
00:12 And we're seeing the images of the meeting that is taking place today in San Vicente
00:17 and Grenadines.
00:18 We're seeing that there is the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and there are
00:28 also the leader of the CARICOM, as well as Brad Gonsalves as the foreign minister of
00:34 Colombia and other important leaders of Latin America.
00:39 And this meeting is to discuss the subject of the territory of Guyana's Kiba.
00:46 And let's remember that on December 3rd, the people of Venezuela went to the polls and
00:51 voted on the referendum that took place on that date.
00:56 And the people had to answer like five questions in order to answer five questions related
01:04 to the subject of Guyana and Ezequiel.
01:08 And 95.93% of Venezuelans who participated in this consultation responded affirmatively
01:15 to the first question, which asked them whether or not they would agree with the disputed
01:20 area of Guyana and Kiba.
01:24 And the president of Guyana and Venezuela are in this meeting in order to attend to
01:29 his intentions over a long-running dispute on the resort bridge Ezequiel territory.
01:44 And CARICOM and CELAC are the organizations that organized this meeting with the support
01:49 of the United Nations that is there as an observer and in order to support and in order
01:55 to guarantee that this agreement will be a peaceful agreement with all the parts involved
02:06 are going to be in a great agreement.
02:11 We are still seeing the image of this meeting that is taking place right now in San Vicente
02:16 and the Grenadines, where Rafael González, the foreign minister of this country, received
02:21 the president, Nicolás Maduro, as well as the president of Guyana.
02:33 And Rafael González has convened this meeting as a contemporary president of CELAC.
02:41 And this meeting has made objective of his intentions between Venezuela and Guyana or
02:48 the territory of Ezequiel that has been in dispute for a lot of years.
02:57 And Guyana's president has also said that let's remember that the people of Venezuela
03:03 have been in dispute with this territory and that on December 3rd, the people went to the
03:09 polls and demonstrated the unity of the people and defended its rights and what belongs to
03:15 them.
03:22 Venezuela also says that Ezequiel was part of the territory and is arguing that the Geneva
03:29 agreement must be fulfilled because the Geneva agreement was signed in 1966 between Caracas,
03:38 the United Kingdom, and Guyana, and whose colonial name was British Guyana.
03:49 And we were seeing the images of a high-level meeting that is taking place in San Vicente
03:54 and the Grenadines.
03:55 More breaking news coming up.
03:57 Stay tuned.
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