Guatemala's president Otto Perez Molina has said that the October 6th ICJ referendum would be off if Belize does not accept either of the two proposals his government made a few weeks ago.
Guatemala wants Belize to change its Referendum Law so that there is no 60% threshold for validity. He is quoted as saying yesterday that quote "if Belize does not accept, we will not go to a referendum and waste 2 hundred 60 million quetzales on something that, going in, we know we will not win." End quote.
That 260 million quetzales works out to about 33 million US dollars.
In other, related news, the OAS adjacency office sent out a release late yesterday. It challenges the publice statement made by Wil Maheia. It says quote "the verification officers of the OAS Office in the Adjacency Zone traveled to Gracias a Dios last Saturday, April 6th with the only and exclusive purpose of avoiding incorrect readings of the location of the Adjacency Line which could cause an incident or tension between the Parties. Likewise, it is important to note that at no time were land-clearing activities undertaken." Touche!
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