The Chancelor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Yván Gil, warned this Saturday that the Southern Command is trying to create a military base in the claimed Essequibo territory, with a view to consolidating “the dispossession of our energy resources.”
This was stated in the Plenary of the 78th Period of Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), where he highlighted that the United States government “has once again intervened in a territorial dispute that is more than 200 years old over our territory.” of Guayana Esequiba”.
In this sense, he said that through the ExxonMobil company, “the government of the United States of America wants to appropriate our oil resources.”
He pointed out that ExxonMobil has included the Guyana government on its payroll, which is granting oil concessions in an undelimited territorial sea, “in total violation of international law.”
