Gya: Border tensions

Suriname will demand that Guyana removes its military presence in the New River Triangle, as it had agreed to do under the provisions of a 1969 agreement.

The demand, according to a report in the Surinamese daily, De Ware Tijd (DWT), is to form part of the Surinamese government's response to Guyana's notice that it was moving to the International Tribunal of the Law of Sea, based in Hamburg, Germany. Guyana is seeking to have the Tribunal settle the maritime border between the two countries in the disputed maritime area off shore the Corentyne coast that both countries claim.