Guyana says no GDF aircraft violated Suriname airspace
GUYANA has advised Suriname that no Guyana Defence Force (GDF) aircraft overflew the Nickerie district on June 9. The Foreign Ministry last night said the Guyana Government had responded with a diplomatic note to the Government of Suriname informing that no GDF aircraft overflew any location in the district of Nickerie on June 9. It said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Suriname in a June 10 diplomatic note, alleged that GDF aircraft violated its airspace by flying over a Surinamese airport and residential area in the Nickerie district on June 8, 9 and 10. According to the Foreign Ministry, by way of diplomatic note June 12, the Government of Guyana rejected the charges about violations of Surinamese airspace and informed the Government of Suriname that the GDF conducted reconnaissance flights of the Corentyne River and its estuary on June 6, 8 and 10. "The Government has reiterated its continued commitment to the basic tenets of the Joint Communique issued in Port-of-Spain at the Special Ministerial Meeting which in its view, is consistent with the statement by the Chairman of CARICOM, urging a peaceful solution through a process of dialogue and a constructive approach to the current dispute," the ministry said.
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