Venezuela’s dictatorship reported on Monday that he delivered 50 volumes of allegations to the International Court of Justice (CIJ), in which he supports his argument about Venezuelan sovereignty over Essequibo, a territory that Caracas disputes with Guyana.
However, Chavista Vice President Delcy Rodríguez said in a statement to the press that the submission of the allegations does not mean that Venezuela will recognize any court decision on the matter.
“We do not recognize under any circumstances the fraudulent judicial proceedings, which began by Guyana, nor will we accept any sentence that is issued on this issue,” said Rodríguez.
“Venezuela has once again demonstrated the solid legal and factual reasons for its irrevocable historical position not to submit to third parties, including the International Court of Justice, issues related to their vital interests, such as their independence and territorial integrity,” he added.
Rodríguez stated that the document sent to the CIJ “fully demonstrates” that the Geneva Agreement signed in 1966 is the only legal document that “obliges Venezuela and Guyana to resolve territorial controversy through a practical, satisfactory and acceptable agreement for both parties.”
“The Cooperative Republic of Guyana has an ineludible obligation to fulfill its international duties and sit down to negotiate in good faith, peacefully and diplomatically with Venezuela, without resorting to the military threat or the use of force, using extracting powers to reissue the structural coercion exerted for centuries against Venezuela,” he said.
The Venezuelan vice president said the United Kingdom “artificially made a conflict on a part of the controversial Venezuelan territory” that now, Guyana, Guyana intends to reissue.
Essequibo is an area of almost 160 thousand square kilometers that corresponds to 70% of the territory of Guyana, but that Venezuela has claimed since the late nineteenth century.
After former dictator Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) left the issue aside, Nicolás Maduro, his successor, again complained sovereignty about the region because they were found in the area large reserves of oil and natural gas-which have led Guyana to sport the world’s largest GDP increases in recent years.
At the end of 2023, the dictator promoted a fraudulent plebiscite in which the Venezuelan population “approved” measures to attach the area. Since then, Maduro “created” a state and a defense zone in Essequibo and in May held an election for governor and deputies for Guyana Estaquiba, as the area calls.
The Guianense government and the CIJ, where the dispute process has been in the process of having been in Caracas to not hold elections for positions for Essequibo, but the Venezuelan dictatorship reiterated the argument (repeated on Monday) of not recognizing the court’s jurisdiction in this case.
