Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Caracas, Jan 28. - Foreign Minister Yván Gil today denounced the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, for his obsession with wanting to harm the Bolivarian Republic.
“Marco Rubio, enemy of our country, as Secretary of State, continues to demonstrate his unhealthy obsession with harming Venezuela,” the senior diplomat stressed on his Telegram social network account.
Gil stated that the senior official of the new US administration “now tries to support the fantasies of the Government of Guyana, which intends to strip us of the historical rights that our liberators bequeathed to us and that form an inalienable part of our sovereignty."
The Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs affirmed that the only legitimate and valid way to resolve the territorial controversy over Guayana Esequiba is through compliance with the Geneva Agreement of 1966.
“Neither the ill-intentioned interference of our enemies nor cunning politics will be able to twist this reality,” he assured.
The Government of Guyana, he said, must understand that its obligation is not to third parties, but to history, international law and the peace of the region, which is why it must sit at the table and negotiate with the bases set by the Geneva Agreement.
“The sun of Venezuela is born in Essequibo!” he expressed. A message accompanying the text, attributed to spokeswoman Tammy Bruce, indicated that Rubio and the Guyanese president, Irfaan Ali, spoke by phone the day before “to address the crisis of illegal migration and agreed to jointly face this imperative and regional challenge.”
The Secretary expressed the firm support of the United States for the territorial integrity of Guyana in the face of the bellicose actions of Nicolás Maduro and his cronies, he said.
Caracas and Georgetown have been in dispute over that territorial space for more than a century, a controversy that is currently being settled before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and that was unilaterally presented by the neighboring nation before that body.
In the opinion of the Venezuelan authorities, the lawsuit presented by Guyana before the Court in March 2018 constituted one of the most serious events in the history of the controversy” over Guyana Esequiba, by validating the “fraudulent arbitration award of 1899 in an irregular manner.
The Guyanese, for their part, rely on the Paris Arbitration Award of October 3, 1899, whose ruling was then in favor of granting the United Kingdom 159,542 square kilometers of the Essequibo territory that belonged to Venezuela.
In a resolution dated December 1, 2023, the ICJ asked both parties to refrain from any action that could “aggravate or expand the territorial dispute” over Guyana Essequiba. (PL) (Photo: Taken from the Internet)
