Tensions between Venezuela and Guyana have increased significantly since then. At the end of the week, a Venezuelan military barricade intercepted and captured the Guyanese fishing boats alleging that the institutes were carrying out their territorial waters. That’s what Guyana regrets, stating that both naves operate within its jurisdiction.
The incident is the most recent chapter of a conflict of more than 100 years in the territory of Esequibo, which represents the three parts of Guyana, abarca 159,000 square kilometers and that Venezuela puts in all its maps as ‘Territory in Reclamation’. And now he thinks that the theme of the fishermen is casual.
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Costs between both nations will be available from December 18th. Today, the International Court of Justice (CIJ) declared itself competent to adjudicate on the validity of an arbitral tribunal from 1899 in Paris, which established the frontier between the two countries, for which Venezuela considered it “zero and irrational”, a lie that a state lawyer who was part of Venezuela’s defense in this process ordered that, after his death, a card be issued publicly confirming that the Paris Law was enacted for the benefit of the British. Guyana was officially an English colony between 1814 and 1966, when it was conquered in Independence.
And while the President of Guyana, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, called the CIJ’s decision a “moment” and a “victory of the State of Derech”, Venezuela called the infamous “tyranny” canalizara “of the form of friendly mediation direct negotiations with Guyana”, rewinding the Accuerdo de Ginebra van 1966. In this pact, the United Kingdom and Venezuela agree that Guyanese and Venezuelan representatives negotiate a definitive frontier solution in one place.
‘Venezuela has never performed its consent to the Corte Conozca over territorial controversy over Guayana Esequiba, and much less has been involved in a unilateral action taken by Guyana over a legal aid granted by the Laudo Arbitral from 1899“, Writes the Venezuelan Mandate Commissioner, Nicolás Maduro, the 7th of January, in a message sent to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, to solicit his mediation in the reactivation of the talks with Guyana.
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Venezuela has never performed its consent to the Cortex condemn the territorial dispute over Guayana Esequiba
To insist on denouncing the jurisdiction of the Court in this case, by experts such as Emilio Figueredo, who for 12 years had been ambassador of Venezuela ante Naciones Unidas for the application of the Accord of Ginebra uit 1966, a ‘disapprove’, then to Agreed, Venezuela accepts the eventual application of Article 33 of the Charter of the United Nations, which is established as a medium for the solution of controversies in the negotiation, investigation, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial order, recourse to organisms or regional agreements in other pacific media.
It is clear that experts such as Sadio Garavini di Turno, who was Venezuela’s ambassador to Guyana, said he was constituting the best scenario for Guyana. “The other solution mechanisms are much better (for Venezuela) than the Corte”, assures this specialist.
The Venezuelan regime insisted on the decision of the CIJ is “void of negligence” for “procedural failures and fund variables”.
“Have you maintained the Ginebra agreement to seek a solution through direct dialogue and pacific instruments for the resolution of this conflict”, said, this Monday, the deputy Hermann Escarrá, who presides over the review installed by the Spending Commission the Guayana Esequiba (as well as its territory) and the Territorial Sovereignty of the Chavista Parliament.
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The experts consulted by EL TIEMPO, without embarrassment, insist that Venezuela should fight the CIJ battle. And now there will be some more time to prepare, then the audience will be pautada para lunes pasade fue diferida para el 26 februari, luego de que el regimen de Nicolás Maduro insistiera en su aplazamiento, unleque no consiguió que fuera hasta elte april.
“Venezuela has defended itself with what it has (…) has to prepare the most likely for our arguments to be heard in the Corte”, urges Garavini, who considers that he has a team of lawyers and demas specialists who he works with the theme.
In any case, the arguments of Venezuela in the Corte, according to the internationalist Figueredo, series “essentially historical”; and the probabilities of that gane, nulas. “If you say that there is a corrupt act, where are the proofs? (The CIJ) wants to make it clear that the law is valid, not to mention the minor ”, lamented Figueredo. Venezuela, without embarrassment, is in its own right, calling on the people to “save the car”.
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New actors took part in the dispute during this new stage. United States, which for many years has been neutral, has taken the position of the Caribbean (Caricom) to support the adoption and resolution of the CIJ.
“The problems between Guyana and Venezuela must resolve in a pacific manner, but we will also be able to resolve their problems in the International Court of Justice”, said in an interview with EL TIEMPO the ambassador for the External Office of EE. UU. for Venezuela, James Story.
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Weekly previews, jointly with Guyana, EE. UU. There are some militaristic fronts in front of the Guyanese coast, which from Venezuela was seen as a “provocation” and “amenaza”. El jefe del Commando Sur de EE. UU., Craig Faller, visited this country in the market of property and firm agreement with The mayor of the Defense Forces, Godfrey Bess, also stated that his country was not interested in setting up a military base.
The interests of EE. UU. of Guyana, according to Garavini, is not alone in addressing the Venezuelan regime, citing the importance it acquires in this country. For 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) projects that the economy of this country has a tax rate of 86 per year, with the hope that it will be converted into the economy of the mayor of crime in the world.
The 160,000 square kilometers of Esequibo’s territory are rich in gold, petroleum, diamonds and coltan, among other rich natural resources. Hecho, May 20, 2015, Exxon Mobil – which has a 200 million dollar concession to explore and extract crude in Guyana – announcing that it has discovered a location in a bank located in Guyana and Suriname that , according to the United States Geological Service, is the second mayor of the world with a crude to explore.
Venezuela has insisted that the bloc is embroiled in litigation and that Guyana could not authorize explorations or economic exploits at all, nor in the Equibi, by negotiating zones in dispute. “There are many interests in the game that you want to increase,” warned Garavini.
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The Venezuelan regime, meanwhile, mired in its traditional allies. Last week, the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, informed of a meeting with the Ambassador of Russia to Venezuela, Sergey Melik-Bagdasarov, on the implementation of military cooperation projects between the national nations and the “historic right” of Venezuela about the Esequibo.
Everything is accumulated in the case of the demand of the Guyanese and demonstrate the inconsistency of Venezuela in the matter
Russia, without embargo, has the juiciness of the specialists consulted, has limited capacity to act in the Western Hemisphere, and is seeking an enrollment, even if, without embarrassment, descending. “Guyana has the support, at this moment, of Cuba, China, Brazil and the majority of the No Alineados”, said Figueredo.
The mistakes of chavismo
How did you get to that point? “Chávez, sin duda alguna, dejó en el olvido el tema del Esequibo. Reasons eran the megalomania of creating a global leader and particularly hemispheric and its interests in the votes and support of the Caribbean ”, in the Organization of American States and other agencies, explains Garavini, who records episodes of his management. The first, in 2004, when in the market of a visit to Georgetown dijo that does not oppose projects in the Esequibo with so much that for the benefit of its inhabitants.
“At the moment, Chávez is cracking down on the tradition of the civil republic (é) era, one of the most powerful mechanisms to press Guyana to negotiate any transitional transition in the Equatorial Territories in any country. project ”, Garavini said.
The second wine in February 2007, when Chávez said that the reactivation, in 1962, of the Venezuelan complaint was debated that the United States of John F. Kennedy presided over the Venezuelan president, Romulo Betancourt, to search for a destabilist Jagan, a Guyana.
For Garavini, take a look at the “most serious expression” that on the subject, then, in its juice and by other experts, the legitimacy of the complaint.
Guyana has the support, at this moment, of Cuba, China, Brazil and the majority of the No Alineados
“Everything is accumulated in the case of the demand of the Guyanese and demonstrate the inconsistency of Venezuela in matter,” said Figueredo.
With Maduro in the power to start another stage in the conflict. In 2013, Guyana began launching petroleum concessions to transnational marina and submarine companies that are considered foreign, and began boating routes to carry out seismic investigations.
One of them, the Teknik Perdana, was detained by the Venezuelan authorities this year, which raised the alarms in the governorate of Guyana.
At the end of 2013, Carolyn Rodríguez-Birkett, the mayor of this country, was sentenced to be sentenced to more than 20 years in prison in 1989. without signs of progress and has to revise other options, sign up for arbitration and the CIJ as alternatives.
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La Corte, de hecho, always has the option of Guyana’s predilection. “Since 1976, the mechanism preferred by Guyana has been the CIJ’s to resolve the issue, for obvious reasons: Guyana’s position on the subject is valid or not from the praise of 1899. ‘ Will Maduro accept a final dictation from the CIJ? Poco probably.
ANDREINA ITRIAGO
Correspondent of EL TIEMPO
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