Venezuela rejects statements made by Guyana regarding the enactment of the Guyana Esequiba Defense Act

Published at: 04/04/2024 04:04 PM

The Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, published an official statement through his account on the social network X in rejection of Guyana's declarations regarding the enactment of the Organic Law for the Defense of Guiana Essequiba.

Below is the full text of the statement:

The Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela fully and forcefully rejects the communiqué issued on April 3, 2024 by the Government of Guyana regarding the enactment of the Organic Law for the Defense of Guiana Essequiba, approved by the National Assembly, fulfilling the sovereign mandate of the Venezuelan people expressed on December 3, 2023 during the Consultative Referendum.

The approval of the above-mentioned law is a sovereign act, which is the sole responsibility of Venezuelans and its objective is to defend and preserve the unquestionable rights of Venezuela over the territory of Guiana Essequiba under the aegis of international law and the Geneva Agreement of 1966, the only valid instrument to resolve in a friendly, practical and satisfactory manner the territorial dispute between our two countries, as recorded in the Argyle Agreement on December 14, 2023.

Venezuela reiterates that it does not recognize the judicial mechanism as a means of resolving the territorial dispute with Guyana, since it excludes the nature and object of the above-mentioned Geneva Agreement, and denounces the dangerous maneuver designed by ExxonMobil, supported by the U.S. Southern Command and the North American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in order to appropriate energy resources that are in a sea to be delimited with our country, while illegally managing our territory, preying on the environment and giving away our natural wealth.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has been, is and will continue to be a nation that guarantees peace and good international coexistence, and will use all available means, within the framework of diplomacy and international law, to protect sovereign and historical interests in its territory.

The Venezuelan sun rises in the Essequibo!