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Opposition Willing To Listen To PM
Thu, May 5, 2016
So the Prime Minister extended the olive branch halfway across the table, by inviting the opposition back to bi partisan negotiations, and imploring them not to go to the Sarstoon. So what is the PUP response? It seems they are willing to reach across to get that olive branch, and stand down on the Sarstoon plan, but with conditions. Late this evening, the party's representative in the Belize Guatemala talks, Eamon Courtenay outlined the formal position:...

Eamon Courtenay, PUP Rep., BZ, Guatemala Relations
"The appeal by the Prime Minister today, that the People's United Party re-engage. We regard that as a very positive development, because the party has always treated this as a national and not a political issue. Having spoken to the Party Leader Hon. John Briceno, he has indicated his position to me as follows: first of all that he will take this matter to the national party council which is meeting on Saturday. Secondly, he will encourage the national party council to look favorably upon the appeal by the Prime Minister for us to re-engage. But in order to do that, we need two things; first we need an agreement by the government that the negotiations and cooperation between the opposition and the government will be full and frank and continuous and in real time and secondly, we need to be briefed on what happened in Washington. The Party Leader has indicated that he expects, based on his conversation earlier today with the Prime Minister that the government and opposition will work very closely. We have got to put the national interest first. The brief discussion that the Prime Minister had with the Leader of the Opposition indicates to us that this matter is very serious and very delicate."

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