Topic: 2024-The Situation in Guyana
Country: Lithuania
Delegate Name: Pradham Nalam
Pradham Nalam
Lithuania
The Situation in Guyana
Special Political Committee
Forest Hills Central High School
Natural resources are one of the most reliable sources of income for many established nations. They allow each country to specialize themselves in aspects of trade with other delegations and help them create trade relations as well as increase the value of their economy in the process. However, not all nations find the advantages of natural resources to be singularly established just for them, some find themselves in dispute with neighboring countries in the moral right to take what is theirs. This is presently the scenario in Venezuela and Guyana. Both these nations have been in bad relations ever since the establishment of British Guyana on the premise of border disputes in who gets more land. The disputes were never peacefully aligned nor resolved as foreign parties had to involve themselves to convince both countries to begrudgingly compromise. Consequently, when oil was discovered in the borderlands of both nations in 2015, land disputes as well as the right of ownership for the oil deposits resurfaced between Guyana and Venezuela. Although both countries entered an agreement to not engage in war or violent conquests with each other, no trials for peaceful negotiation were successfully organized as both countries absently skipped out on the scheduled meeting to peacefully settle the matter, dampening any chance of a civil resolve involving only these two parties.
The delegation of Lithuania firmly stands on the topic of resource distribution. We believe that the oil deposits lying under both nations are for equal partition for Venezuela and Guyana. As the delegate representing Lithuania, I present sympathy and reformation on this matter as Lithuania has many experiences with oil production as well as disputes with neighboring countries similar to the situation at hand. Lithuania produces a substantial amount of oil every day as well produces 37 percent of its reserves every year.” (Worldometer 2016). We believe that there is a cavernous amount of a grey area that would allow Venezuela and Guyana to work alongside each other and profit from the oil as well as split the crude oil extraction evenly to increase their reservoirs. I hope this committee peacefully comes to a resolution about this matter and I also hope that all delegates work together to help to reach the end of this dispute.
Lithuania’s proposition for this matter is to encourage the United Nations to help the countries in dispute to come to peace with equal benefits as well as equal investments from the oil deposits. The proposed plan is to allow both nations, Venezuela and Guyana, to have equal participation in the investment and collaboration of extracting the oil from the deposits. This means that both nations would have to financially and labouredly invest in the process of extraction. The oil extracted from the deposits will then be equally split by both nations to proceed with whatever action they want with their share of the extract. The sub-committee for programs and coordination from the UN will foresee the application of this plan until the stage of splitting the extract. After the first round of extraction, it will become the duty of both nations to establish a proper order and process to evenly and equally split the oil. This will allow both of these nations to prosper as well as create a foundation for future interactions between Guyana and Venezuela with an order of peace.
