Delcy Rodríguez ratified rights to the Essequibo before the ICJ: Venezuela has submitted more than 3,000 pages with evidence

After her speech at the hearing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, the president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, ratified the rights of the Bolivarian nation over the territory of Guiana Essequiba, evidenced in more than three thousand documents submitted to this body.

“Venezuela has submitted more than 3,000 pages with evidence, despite the fact that the United Kingdom prevented our access to evidentiary sources, despite the fact that the United Kingdom destroyed evidence, despite the fact that the United Kingdom guaranteed evidence only to the counterparty (...) and in our case it was denied,” he criticized.

Rodríguez congratulated the historical research team, led by Ambassador Samuel Muncada, “because it allowed us to gather abundant evidence about the nullity of the 1899 Award, on the nullity of the Washington treaty of 1897, on the nullity of the 1905 delimitation agreement, but also abundant evidence about what was sought with the renewal of the Geneva Agreement in a process of decolonization.”

The president in charge stressed that Venezuela is ready and ready to move forward in direct negotiations. “That the result of this process that seeks to bring the Court to a shameful situation such as trying to validate a fraud that occurred 127 years ago, Venezuela will not recognize it because we would be committing international illegality ourselves,” he remarked.