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Country: Japan
Delegate Name: Isabella Frederick
The situation in Guyana, between Guyana and Venezuela, over the Essequibo territory, is both unfortunate and long overdue for a resolution. Through many treaties disputing this border, no answer has been found for what the border should actually end up being. It has been changed time and time again, going from British Guiana to Guyana gaining their independence, changing it once again. Another factor to this ever-changing border is the discovery of oil in the Essequibo territory which is between Venezuela and Guyana. This created a question about who actually obtained the once unnoticed territory of Essequibo due to the oil that it contains.
Japan firmly believes that a peaceful resolution to this problem is the best way to go about solving this conflict. Many conflicts similar to this have been going on throughout recent years and Japan believes that another conflict that has the possibility to become violent would be detrimental to the world Japan would like to build. Although Japan has not taken action on the issue Japan believes that the 1966 treaty that was created when Guyana originally gained their independence is the treaty that Japan believes the border should be based off of.
Although Japan is fairly indifferent on this issue and mainly believes that the most important aspect is a peaceful resolution to the conflict, Japan is immensely excited to work with other nations to come to an official border agreement and resolve the long going dispute between Guyana and Venezuela.
