In the spaces of the House of Insurgent History, in Caracas, the deputy to the National Assembly (AN), Hermann Escarráled a conference called «Rejection of the Arbitration Award of 1899«, as part of the 125 years of the null, invalid and irritated Paris Arbitration Award, addressed to the lawyers and members of the Social Movements in Defense of Guayana Esequiba.
On the day, the parliamentarian and president of the Commission for the Defense of Guayana Esequiba, presented a chronology of the event and stated that today is not a day of remembrancebut of collective and historical memory in repudiation and rejection of the imperial intention to take over a territory that belongs to it by history.
During his presentation, he pointed out that Article 10 of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela indicates that the territory and other geographical spaces of the Republic are those that corresponded to the General Captaincy of Venezuela before the initial political transformation of April 19, 1810, with the modifications resulting from the treaties and arbitration awards not vitiated by nullity.
For this reason, he expressed that the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899 is an agreement void of nullity and inapplicable in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Likewise, Dr. Escarrá recognized that in Venezuela the commission works to ignore that Arbitration Award of 1899.
«As the Commission for the Defense of Guayana Esequiba, we do not recognize the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, and we recognize the only valid document for negotiation. Geneva Agreement of 1966, which was signed by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the Kingdom of England and endorsed by the Colony of British Guyana (Today the Cooperative Republic of Guyana),” he said.
Source: Press release
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