Guyana and Venezuela are getting ready to appoint a new representative of the United Nations (UN) to restart negotiations on a border dispute over Essequibo.This is according to the Director General of the Guyanese Foreign Affairs Ministry, Elisabeth Harper.“There has been progress and we hope that we will appoint someone soon.”The “Good Officer” has been in abeyance for two years – since January 2007 – following the death of Barbadian legal expert and veteran diplomat, Oliver Jackman.The new head of the Good Offices process must be a representative of the UN Secretary General.Towards the middle of the nineteenth century,Diego Maradona Jersey, the British Government felt it necessary to demarcate Guyana’s borders. In 1840 a commission was issued to Robert Schomburgk, a German surveyor, geographer and naturalist, authorizing him to survey and mark out the boundaries of British Guiana.It was the intention of that Government, when the work was completed, to communicate to the Governments of Venezuela and Brazil the views of the British as to the true boundary of the colony, and then to settle by negotiation any details to which these Governments might take objection.In carrying out this commission, Schomburgk personally investigated practically the whole of the country (west of the Essequibo): first, from Barima Point and the Amakura River as far as the confluence of the Acarabisi Creek with the Cuyuni River; later, the whole area stretching west and north between the Essequibo and Cuyuni Rivers.Schomburgk did not discover or invent any new boundaries and took particular care to base his reports from actual exploration and information obtained from the Amerindians, as well as from the evidence of Dutch remains at Barima and on the Cuyuni.He, thus, was able to determine the limits of Dutch possession and the zone from which all trace of Spanish influence was absent.With his reports, Schomburgk submitted maps of his surveys, on which he indicated the line which he would propose to the British Government for adoption. He also called attention to the fact that the British Government might justly claim the whole basin of the Cuyuni and the Yuruari (a tributary of the Cuyuni located in Venezuela), on the grounds that the natural boundary of British Guiana included any territory through which flowed rivers, themselves tributaries of the Essequibo.With a view to facilitating the negotiations for the adjustment of the boundary, he proposed that Great Britain should consent to surrender its claim to a more extended frontier inland.It was on this principle that he drew the boundary line which has since become famous as the Schomburgk Line, and which included,Cheap Oilers Jerseys, therefore, much less territory than that claimed by Great Britain.It was at this period that the discussions with Venezuela about the boundary commenced. The first approach made by the Venezuelan Government was in January 1841 when, in reply to the British announcement of the boundary, it proposed the negotiation of a Treaty of Limits, and expressed a desire that this Treaty should precede the survey and demarcation of the frontier.Later in the year, the Venezuelan Government renewed the proposal for the negotiation of a Treaty and, at the same time, protested against Schomburgk’s proceedings in placing boundary posts at certain points.The Venezuelan Government was informed, in reply, that in the opinion of the British, the negotiation of a Boundary Treaty should follow rather than precede the survey operations.The reply added that although Schomburgk had put up certain marks, he was fully aware that the demarcation, as made, was merely a preliminary measure open to future discussions between the two Governments.The Venezuelan Ambassador in London, Fortique, renewed his protests, and Lord Aberdeen, then Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, consented in January 1842 to send instructions for the removal of the boundary posts which had been placed by Schomburgk near the Orinoco.However, at the same time, it was distinctly declared that the British Government was not abandoning any portion of its rights over the territory which was formerly held by the Dutch.In 1843, Fortique requested the speedy conclusion of a Treaty to define the boundary between Venezuela and British Guiana. Then in a note of the 31 January 1844, he presented the first formal statement of the Venezuelan claim that the territory of the Republic extended to the Essequibo River. The main grounds on which the claim was based were: Spain was the first discoverer and occupant of the New World; The Spaniards had at an early date explored and occupied the Orinoco and all the contiguous country, and the Barima, Moruka and Pomeroon Rivers; At the time of the Treaty of Munster, the Dutch had no possessions in Guiana, or none at least on the northern and west