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Agence France-Presse (AFP)

Calls Mount For Calm As Guyana-Venezuela Border Tensions Soar

Guyana has adminstered Essequibo for over a century and the region makes up more than two-thirds of its territory. (Credit: AFP)

Calls mounted Thursday for calm to prevail as Venezuela said it saw a "provocation" in joint US-Guyana military exercises and vowed to pursue the "recovery" of an oil-rich region both neighbors claim as their own.

The UN Security Council called an urgent meeting for Friday on the fast-escalating row that Guyana said "threatens international peace and security."

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