President Maduro: We will always consider the Paris Arbitration Award to be null and void

Published at: 03/10/2025 06:32 PM

This Friday, October 3rd, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, ratified that the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899 is not appropriate to resolve the dispute over the territory of Guiana Essequiba, a document that seeks to strip Venezuela of more than 160,000 kilometers of territory.

In the Yellow House, headquarters of the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of Venezuela, where he led the closing of the International Conference “Colonialism, Neocolonialism and the Territorial Dispossessions of Western Imperialism”, he emphasized that the aforementioned document “will be considered forever, in Venezuela, as null and void.”

He argued that the Geneva Agreement of 1966 is the only valid legal instrument for the resolution of the territorial dispute over Guiana Essequiba.

The head of state stressed that this maneuver at the time was promoted by the British Empire and “by the nascent and voracious American empire”.

In this context, he recalled that “on a day like today, 126 years ago, an absolutely null and void arbitral award and an arbitral award corresponding to the colonial times of dispossession of that 19th century were negotiated in imperial complicity.”

He stressed that Venezuela has set an example of dignity before the world, with the strength of its historical conscience and deep love for its land.