The UN Security Council on Monday expressed its concern about the smouldering border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana. Council members called on the conflicting parties to exercise the greatest possible restraint in their dispute over the Essequibo region in South America, according to a spokesman. The most powerful body of the United Nations called for differences to be resolved by peaceful means and for all obligations under international law and the United Nations Charter to be honoured. Venezuela’s authoritarian President Nicolás Maduro recently passed a law declaring the border region…