Venezuela reiterates that the Geneva Agreement is the only way to settle the dispute with Guyana

The administration of Nicolás Maduro, said Monday that the Geneva Agreement, signed 59 years ago, is the only way to resolve dispute with Guyana through the Esequibo, a territory of 160,000 square kilometers claimed by both countries.

«The historical rights of Venezuela and its ownership over the Esequiba Guiana are irrefutable and inalienable. The Geneva Agreement is the only established and agreed route between the parties to resolve this territorial controversy, ”he said in a statement published by number two of the Chavista administration, Delcy Rodríguez, in Telegram.

He also indicated that Venezuela will not give in to any «maneuver that intends to strip it of the historical rights that its liberators bequeathed after the independence deed.»

«The Guayana Estequiba is and will be an indisputable part of Venezuelan territorial integrity and the struggle for its recovery remains an indeclinable cause of the entire people, which expressed its almost unanimous support to the Geneva agreement in the advisory referendum of December 3, 2023 »He added.

Venezuela said that Guyana persists in her «obscured interest» of «risk» the tranquility and peace of the Latin American and Caribbean region, «in open complicity with external factors to this controversy, including the installation of military bases of the southern command of the southern command of the United States in the Esequibo territory ».

He also criticized that Guyana allows «abusive, illegitimate and illegitimate exploitation of oil, gold and other minerals to» favor exxonmobil and other great energy transnational transnationals, with the formal and official protest of Venezuela. «

While Venezuela defends this agreement, Guyana is based on the 1899 arbitration award and is committed to resolving the conflict through the open process in the International Court of Justice (CIJ).

Maduro announced in January that his country will choose this year for the first time to a governor for the Guyana Esequiba, which he points out as the Venezuelan region number 24 after, in December 2023, a unilateral referendum was held in which he won The option of annexing the territory that is still administered by the Irfaan Ali Executive.

Subsequently, Guyana denounced that this statement of Maduro increases «tensions» between the two countries and pointed out that the inhabitants of the border region of the Esequibo are national guyanese who live in the sovereign territory of Guyana.