This Sunday, the Venezuelan Chancellory issued a statement that emphatically and energetically rejects the words expressed by the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, which are described as “unfortunate when trying to fabricate a conflict in the region, openly lacking the truth and attachment to the international right”.
In this sense, the official text maintains that it is a crude manipulation of the facts, by pretending to present ordinary incidents in the custody of Venezuelan jurisdictional waters, as if they represented an aggression against their country.
Likewise, the official statement adds that this position has probably been built by the legal advisory teams of Guyana and by representatives of the ExxonMobil company, and clarifies that it has been denied in all its parts by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, by making public the geo-location of the Guyanese vessels at the time of the legal interception carried out by the Bolivarian Navy in strict compliance with its constitutional obligations.
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ratifies that it will defend its territory and its legitimate rights over Guayana Esequiba, in strict adherence to international law and the 1966 Geneva Agreement, for which it warns that the President of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, dedicated a good part of his intervention to utter infamies and presenting his country as a victim of Venezuela, based on sustainable speculations and inconceivable arguments, under the false premise of aggression.
To conclude, it asserts that “Venezuela reaffirms its offer to the Cooperative Republic of Guyana to establish a sincere, transparent dialogue, based on good faith, as well as to establish a comprehensive, respectful, sincere bilateral relationship, free of lies, tendentious simulations and dangerous manipulations”.
