Jurist Hermann Escarrà gave a Conference in Rejected the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899

Published at: 03/10/2024 06:40 PM

In the spaces of the House of Insurgent History, in Caracas, the deputy to the National Assembly (AN), Hermann Escarrà, led a conference called “Rejected on the Arbitral Award of 1899”, as part of the 125 years of the null, invalid and irritated Arbitral Award of Paris, addressed to lawyers and members of the Social Movements in Defense of Guiana Esequiba.

On the day, the parliamentarian and president of the Commission for the Defense of Guiana, Essequiba, presented a chronology of the event and stated that today is not a day of commemoration, but of collective and historical memory in repudiation and rejection of the imperial claim to seize a territory that belongs to him by history.

During his presentation, he noted that in Article 10 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, it is indicated that the territory and other geographical areas of the Republic are those that belonged to the General Captaincy of Venezuela before the initial political transformation of April 19, 1810, with the modifications resulting from treaties and arbitral awards not vitiated by nullity.

For this reason, he stated that the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899 is a flawed award of nullity and inapplicable in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. In addition, Escarrà acknowledged that in Venezuela the commission is working in ignorance of that Arbitral Award of 1899.

“As the Commission for the Defense of Guiana Essequiba, we do not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, and we recognize as the only valid document for negotiation the Geneva Agreement of 1966, which was signed by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Kingdom of England and endorsed by the Colony of British Guiana (now the Cooperative Republic of Guyana),” he said.

Mazo News Team