The Venezuelan government reaffirmed this Friday the willingness of Venezuela to defend the territorial integrity of the homeland and maintain it on the basis of the Geneva Agreement, as the only way to achieve a peaceful and satisfactory solution for both parties and in favor of the peoples, which is why that a proposal to reach an agreement with Guyana was denounced in the United Nations (UN).
The information was released by the Executive Vice President of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, during a meeting of the Presidential Commission to address the issue of the Essequibo from Miraflores.
“Venezuela has a negotiating proposal so that we can definitely reach an agreement on this territorial controversy, consistent with its position of respect for the Constitution and the 1966 Geneva Agreement,” said the Vice President.
The authorities ratified this Friday the Geneva Agreement, signed in 1966, in which the sovereignty of Venezuela over the Essequibo is recognized, for which the Arbitration Award issued in 1899 in Paris, France, which illegally ceded this territory to British Guyana.
“Guyana files a unilateral claim before the International Court of Justice, where the historical position of the Venezuelan State has been the non-recognition of the jurisdiction of this court,” he explained.
Rodríguez said that with Guyana’s decision to abrogate the Arbitration Award of 1899, the nation is acting as a foreign agent in order to attack Venezuela, as well as seeking to get rid of the Geneva Agreement, signed in February 1966.
He also denounced that Guyana seeks to favor the US oil company Exxon Mobil, as well as imperial interests, with the lawsuit that it filed before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2018, about the controversy with Venezuela by the Essequibo.
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