Venezuela reaffirms the validity of the Geneva Agreement 59 years after its signing (+Official Statement)
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Published at: 17/02/2025 10:14 AM
Through an official statement, Venezuela reiterates the validity of the " Geneva Agreement and denounces the constant and systematic violations by the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana” to ignore this legal instrument as the only way to resolve the dispute between the two nations.
Below is the full text of the statement:
The Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela commemorates, with a deep sense of unity and sovereignty, the 59th
anniversary of the signing of the “Agreement to Resolve the Dispute between Venezuela
and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the border between
Venezuela and British Guiana”, signed on February 17, 1966 and
known as the Geneva Agreement.
This international treaty,
duly deposited with the United Nations Organization, buried the
discussion about the validity or invalidity of the 1899 Arbitral Award and established the obligation of the parties to put an end to
the territorial dispute
relating to Guiana Essequiba, through a practical and mutually acceptable settlement.
59 years after its signing, Venezuela reaffirms the full validity of the Geneva Agreement and denounces the constant and systematic violations by the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, which has sought to ignore its commitments and to unilaterally dispose of territory that does not belong to it, allowing the abusive, illegal and illegitimate exploitation of oil, gold and other precious minerals present in the controversial territory, to favor ExxonMobil and other large energy transnational corporations, with Venezuela's formal and official protest.
In the same way, the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana persists in its obsessed interest in jeopardizing the tranquility and peace of the Latin American and Caribbean region, in open complicity with factors external to this controversy, including the installation of military bases of the United States Southern Command in Essequibo territory.
Venezuela will not give in to any
maneuver that seeks to strip it of the historical rights bequeathed by its Liberators after the independence feat.
Esequiba Guiana is and will be an indisputable part
of Venezuelan territorial integrity, and the fight for its recovery
remains an indeclinable cause of all the people, who expressed their almost unanimous support for the Geneva Agreement in
the consultative referendum of December 3, 2023.
59 years after the signing and into force of the Geneva Agreement, Guyana is obliged to sit down and negotiate immediately, without further delay. The historical rights of Venezuela and its ownership over Guiana Essequiba are irrefutable and inalienable. The Geneva Agreement is the only way established and agreed between the parties to resolve this territorial dispute. The Venezuelan sun rises in the Essequibo!
Caracas, February 17, 2025
Mazo News Team