EEUU in Guyana conducts a naval exercise in strengthening bilateral military cooperation

Venezuela responds with patrol and la fachada atlntica

United States and Guyana Embassies in combined ownership.  Photo: Army in Guyana

United States and Guyana Embassies in combined ownership. Photo: Army in Guyana

14/01/2021 | Karakas

Carlos E. Hernndez

The United States and Guyana are conducting a combined naval operation and will establish a cooperation agreement in the area of ​​defense. This statement is based on the recent tensions between the South American Anglo-French nation and Venezuela, in relation to the Venezuelan Venezuelan complaint.

The combined marine ownership is located on the 9th of January, in front of the Guyanese coast. El US Coast Guard after the snyer Uscgc Stone (WMSL-758), while it Coast Guard in Guyana participant with minor patrol patrols, type 957Y y Metal Shark 38 Defiant.

El Uscgc Stone is a patrol buque of the class Legend built by the astillero Huntington Ingalls Industries, from Pascagoula, Mississippi, and launched in November 2020. It covers 4,500 tons and has 127 metro meters, 16 manga 16 and 6.9 metro meters. The armament conforms to a canon Mk-110 57 mm, a cannon Phalanx block 1B 20mm, 12.7 mm metal fittings and 2 mm metal fittings M240 of 7.62 mm. It has an airplane cover and a hangar with the capacity to mount helicopters Airbus MH-65C Dolphin MCH. Its endowment is conforming to 120 triplets.

Relating to Guyanese Units, Guardians of this country have five patrol types 957Y donated by China in April 2017 and February 2019, as informed Infodefensa.com, while they are fast-moving Metal Shark 38 Defiant available, will be available in the 2014 and March 2017 batches.

Nuevo acuerdo af Defensa

At the back door, the 11th of January, the commander of United State Command (US Southern Command), admiral Craig S. Faller, visit Guyana to join Procurement and Cross Service Agreement with el jefe del City Mayor of the Defense Force, brigadier Godfrey Bess, which proposes to simplify the process of exchange of goods or services “in order to maintain effective and mutually beneficial defense cooperation”.

United States and Guyana came in the last few hours, stretching their angles in the military area. In September 2020, we will sign the Ship Rider Agreement, focused on marine area cooperation, which includes the implementation of combined acquisitions such as those made in previous days. In addition, the same states, the United States donated to the Guards of Guyana engines and parts for its facilities, as well as Infodefensa.com.

Venezuela Reaction

A new incident has been reported in the Venezuelan complaint of the 159,000 km of the territory of Esequibo, currently in the position of Guyana, Antigua Guayana English reason for the “heredo” of the United Kingdom. Venezuela was granted its territory, in 1899, by an Arbitral Tribunal, constituted in Paris, by British and Russian judges, states and Russians, who were not allowed to participate in the deliberations.

In 1966, Venezuela in Guyana set up in Ginebra a median agreement that would convince us to seek a territorial dispute over the United Nations. However, in the year 2018, the UN, at the request of Guyana, decided to refer the case to the International Court of Justice, as Venezuela does not recognize in the context of the complaint, and, in a recent decision, its organism jurisdiction over Venezuelan advertising in the territory of Esequibo, which has aggravated relations between the two countries because, unilaterally, the Ginebra Accord.

In this order of events, the 8th of January, the Venezuelan governor, to advance the territorial advertising, decrees the establishment of the Strategic Zone of the Development of the Atlantic Cluster, with which he claims to brand “protection and salvation of the jurisdiction” in this territory.

In addition, it has been ordered to increase the active presence of military units by means of the permanent patrol in all areas of the Atlantic facade in the past, under the auspices of the Minister of Popular Power for Defense, the realization of the naval maneuvers combined stadium-Guyanese and the presence of the commander of the Commando Sur in Guyana is announced and resumed.

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