Suriname’s Foreign Minister Albert Ramdin yesterday said he had summoned the Ambassador of Guyana, Virjanand Depoo to protest plans by the government in Georgetown to build an airstrip in what he described as the Tigri Area but what is recognized internationally as the New River Triangle in this country.
Reuters last night said that Ramdin also complained that a school is to be built in the area.
Ramdin asserted that the planned developments violate agreements made in 1970.
There was no response by the Guyana Government last night to the Reuters report. There has also been no recent announcement here by the government about plans for an airstrip or school in the New River Triangle.
As relations between Guyana and Suriname bloomed in recent years there has been little mention of the contention over the New River Triangle. Just days ago, Suriname hosted a 49th independence anniversary celebration in Georgetown and there wasn’t the slightest hint of tensions. Suriname’s President Chandrikapersad Santokhi and Ramdin were recently here for a series of engagements including the CARICOM-India Summit.
On August 19, 1969, a military unit of the Guyana Defence Force during a routine air patrol found armed Surinamese engaged in the construction of an airstrip in the New River Triangle. The GDF unit confronted the intruders who offered armed resistance and then fled unharmed.
Guyana and Suriname have tussled for decades over three separate border issues: the offshore maritime zone which was largely resolved in this country’s favour at the International Law of the Sea Tribunal, control of the Corentyne River which is unresolved and over the New River Triangle which is internationally recognised as belonging to Guyana.
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