The executive vice president of the Republic, Delcy Rodríguez, confirmed that Venezuela rejects the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899 and therefore continues to defend its historical rights over the Essequibo.
Through your account On the social network Instagram, the vice president recalled on Thursday that “today more than ever Venezuela is standing, defending its territory, its territorial integrity and its historical rights over the Essequibo.”
Furthermore, he stressed that 125 years ago this ruling sought to validate an invalid agreement between the British Crown and the United States to “strip our country of its Essequibo territory.”
“A compromise between the British Crown and the United States of America to seize and strip Venezuela of its territory, its legitimate rights over that territory. Venezuela was born as a republic with the territory of Guayana Esequiba. It has always belonged to Venezuela; The only one that has had and has legitimate titles over that territory is Venezuela,” Rodríguez emphasized in a video.
The Minister for Petroleum also warned that today the Government of Guyana, in collusion with the British and the Americans, seeks to validate it “to steal our immense energy wealth in that territory.”
Likewise, he affirmed that the only mechanism to resolve the territorial controversy is the 1966 Geneva Agreement.
The vice president recalled that on December 3, in a great national consensus, the Venezuelan people came to vote in the referendum in favor of defending the territory of Guayana Esequiba within the framework of the 1966 Geneva Agreement.
