– on continental shelf extension
GUYANA yesterday made its oral presentation in support of its submission for an extended continental shelf to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf. The presentation was made by Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York. Minister Rodrigues-Birkett was accompanied by Ambassador Elisabeth Harper, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; George Talbot, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations; Keith George, Ambassador of Guyana to the Republic of Suriname; Ambassador Rudolph Collins, Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Newell Dennison, Manager, Petroleum Division of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission; and Dr Barton Scotland, Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dr Snejana Zaric and Dr Norbert Ott, Scientific Advisers of the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, also formed part of Guyana’s delegation.
This presentation forms part of the requirements for the consideration of the submissions for an extended continental shelf by States Parties
of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
It will be recalled that Guyana made its submission for an extended continental shelf to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental
Shelf on September 6, 2011.
Guyana makes oral presentation to UN
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