In the midst of the de facto administration’s attempt to steal an election by any means possible, and, on the eve of the public hearing at the International Court of Justice in the case concerning the 1899 Arbitral Award (Guyana vs Venezuela), de facto Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo took it upon himself to go public, firing as it were, on all cylinders on sensitive foreign policy matters not realizing that his casus belli would be a colossal error of judgement.

In defiance of any rational explanation, the lame duck Prime Minister, based on what he said, views every statement by the Western powers in respect to Guyana as a threat to be countered.

Mr. Nagamootoo fails to recognize that in the case of Guyana, the Western countries are not seeking to replace a democratically elected government and to install an authoritarian regime, it is the other way around.

Coming in the wake of a strong statement by the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, calling on Granger to “concede defeat and to begin the democratic transition of power,” and fully aware of the impending case of the Guyana vs Venezuela border controversy at the ICJ to which the US government has publicly declared its recognition of Essequibo as an integral part of Guyana’s national territory, Mr Granger engages in self-serving double talk to wriggle out of the messy situation in which he has found himself thanks to his Prime Minister and more recently, his Campaign Manager.

The de facto President pleaded saying: “The United States is a friend and has worked closely with Guyana over several decades…”

He went on to say that: “Guyana’s strategic interests in the Western Hemisphere were not in jeopardy…”

Mr. Granger’s effort at pacification and assuaging the Western countries must be viewed as too little, too late.