But the Prime Minister isn't fazed by Guatemala's scolding at the UN, even though they accused him of misrepresenting the truth and playing politics with the territorial dispute.
He returned to the country this afternoon where we met him at the PGIA. When we asked him about Guatemala's response, he said it didn't matter because we have the evidence that there was indeed an incursion into our airspace:
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"The flight did happen. The evidence is there. You have many amateur people that follow flights in their own app, they saw it. We have the evidence here, so there's nothing to dispute-it happened."
Reporter
"Do you feel like the Guatemalans were impeaching your statesmanship and gaslighting Belize by insisting this flight didn't happen?"
John Briceno:
"It doesn't matter what they say, because the entire world knew what happened, and of course, probably they're trying to save face. I don't know what they're trying to do. The point is that it happened. They should have never been here in our airspace, and if they wanted to do that, they should have asked permission from the country. And secondly, they broke an international treaty from ICAO that look after transponders. They took off their transponders-obviously they knew that they were in the wrong and were trying to hide it."
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