Last week, the OAS Adjacency Zone Office asserted that the Belize Territorial Volunteers planted palm trees on Guatemalan territory between Jalacte and Santa Cruz villages. Well, the Territorial Volunteers refuse to let that assessment stand, and they are challenging the OAS to show them how their GPS readings were wrong.
The BTV released a statement which says, quote, "The BTV categorically denies the findings of the OAS and further invites the OAS/Adjacency Zone Office, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to map the GPS coordinates of the coconut trees in question. .
It adds that, quote, "The OAS has sat quietly and condoned the incursions of Guatemalans into Belize….No effort has been made by the OAS to issue a similar public statement that would confirm the GPS coordinates of these incursions by Guatemalans."
The Territorial Volunteers has invited the Belize and Guatemala media, and the OAS/Adjacency Zone Office to the border at Jalacte/Santa Cruz on March 22, 2015 to jointly read the GPS coordinates of the coconut trees."
We tried reaching the OAS Adjacency offices today, to see if they would take the BTV up on their offer, but we were unsuccessful.
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