The general secretary of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, insisted that no judgment of the International Court of Justice (CIJ) is binding with Venezuela, after being consulted around the protest note sent by country, after the authorization of that international instance to the Government of Guyana to execute operations in territory to define.
«La Guayana Esequiba is from Venezuela, that is not under discussion. The International Court of Justice can draw the sentences you want, that is not binding with us. Everything that is west of the Esequibo River belongs to Venezuela, ”he emphasized in reference to the start of operations of the production, storage and discharge ship« One Guyana », of the American company Exxonmobil.
He recalled that Venezuelans participated in the Referendum held on December 3, 2023with a great participation, where even some opposition sectors were present and active in favor of recognizing the Geneva agreement as the only legal instrument to resolve the conflict, while the extremist sector “which has among its plans to give Venezuela to imperialism was disregard PSUV press conference This Monday.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has constantly reiterated that the 1966 Geneva Agreement, which aims to ignore the Government of Guyana, “is the only existing way to resolve, in a practical and satisfactory way the territorial controversy between the two countries, which exhortes this country to give up its erratic behavior contrary to international law and assume the commitments of direct dialogue in the plasimate.”
He recalled that in Guyana There will be elections and that “they will see what they do”, since it is being presented to the re -election “the employee of the Exxonmobil,” he said when referring to Irfaan Ali. «He is not president and they have it exercising it. That they decide what they have to decide and we in Venezuelan territory what we have to decide, ”he said.
Earlier this August, the American company began work in pending waters to delimit, so Venezuela reiterated that these operations are “illegal” according to international law and warned Exxonmobil and “any other company” that intends to participate in oil exploitation or oil exploitation activities in these waters that “such actions can lead to political and legal consequences.”
