Caracas. The Venezuelan vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, affirmed this Thursday that the United States uses Guyana as a “wild card” to promote a conflict in the region, during the meeting of social movements of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Pueblos (Alba-TCP) that takes place in Caracas.
“There is a conflict that they are already projecting, that imperialism is already projecting, which is the Essequibo, which is why Venezuela has come out with great force to denounce that it is not only about the dispossession and theft of a territory of Venezuela, 15 percent of its territory, but rather the wild card to promote, incite an armed conflict in this hemisphere,” said the official at the forum installation.
At the meeting that hosts movements, activists and social leaders from more than 60 countries, the vice president reflected on the US role in world conflicts.
In the plenary session, Rodríguez accused Guyana of taking the territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with the aim of validating “the fraud of the Paris Arbitration Award.”
“We have warned that Venezuela not only does not recognize it, but that it is not going to implement or execute the sentence that emanates from there and that the surrenderist Government of Guyana that today wants to promote armed conflict in this hemisphere to satisfy the US Government” , he added.
On April 11, the administration of Nicolás Maduro delivered to the ICJ a document and its respective copies on the ownership of the Essequibo territory.
In Court, the vice president pointed out that the former Guyanese minister, Raphael Trotman, made a confession in his book From Destiny to Prosperity about the plans of the United States and the ExxonMobil company on the Essequibo territory, after the former official rejected the use of information from his work by Caracas.
In this way, the vice president responded to Trotman, who published a photo of Rodríguez with the book in his hand when he submitted on Monday before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) a document with what he considers the historical truth of the Essequibo territory and that demonstrates that Venezuela is the only country that has title to Guayana Esequiba.
Tensions between Caracas and Georgetown increased after Guyana received offers for eight of the 14 oil blocks that went to tender in December 2022, among which is the company ExxonMobil.
A situation that Venezuela considered as a collusion between the US and ExxonMobil to strip the country of its rights over the territory.
For more than 100 years, Venezuela and Guyana have had a dispute over the sovereignty of the Essequibo Region, which covers some 160 thousand square kilometers west of the Essequibo River and has large oil reserves.
In 1966, both nations signed an agreement to seek a peaceful solution to this dispute, but in 2018 Guyana filed a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice in which it asks the court to legally validate the 1899 arbitration award that gives it absolute control over the territory.
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– 2024-04-23 20:46:28
