By delivering the originals of the two documents signed this Tuesday in Bridgetown, Barbados, and presenting a summary to the Venezuelan head of State, Nicolás Maduro, in relation to the meeting held by the Government and the opposition of Venezuela to resume the political negotiation process, the head of the delegation for the Bolivarian Government, Jorge Rodríguez, emphasized: “We the parties ratify our intention that our political and social issues of the political sectors of Venezuela have to be resolved through peaceful, constitutional and electoral means.”
From the Simón Bolívar hall of Miraflores Palace, where the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, held a conversation with the Dialogue Commission, Rodríguez argued that in this sense a call is made to build a climate of tolerance, to preserve and respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
In that sense, the head of the Venezuelan delegation pointed out that it is very auspicious that, those who in the past called and made barbaric calls for a coup d’état, and asked for sanctions for the people of Venezuela, today in the final document (in Barbados), “it is established, understanding the need for sanctions against the Venezuelan State to be lifted and claiming independence, freedom, sovereignty, immunity, territorial integrity and national self-determination as an inalienable right of the Nation.”
Furthermore, regarding both documents signed in Bridgetown, he indicated that “this paints the field for the electoral events that are to come”, mainly for the 2024 electoral event, but also “it is a germ and basis for all of us to strive to the construction of a climate of political tolerance, a climate of construction and search for peace, and above all, of unrestricted respect for our independence, sovereignty, legal system and the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
Regarding the Partial Agreement for the Protection of the Vital Interests of the Nation and that basically what it establishes is the vindication of the inalienable rights that Venezuela has in terms of independence, freedom, sovereignty, immunity, territorial integrity and self-determination national, “leads to that we must build the defense of Guayana Essequiba among all Venezuelans.”
Along these lines, Jorge Rodríguez emphasized that the validity of the 1966 Geneva Agreement is ratified, the unilateral actions of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana are rejected in contravention of international law with these abusive, rude and illegal measures of attempting to auction oil fields in that are not yet defined.
The defense of the assets and property of the CITGO Petroleum Corporation company is also established as the most important asset that the Republic has abroad, and thus “just as the rights of Venezuela over its company CITGO are defended, so is the preservation of all assets that are abroad,” stressed Rodríguez, regarding the two documents that were signed by representatives of the Government of Venezuela and by the representatives of the PUV.
He stressed that the delegation of the Bolivarian Government ratified the solid, efficient and invulnerable character of our electoral system.
“We agree with this sector of Venezuelan politics on a process so that the presidential election, which constitutionally corresponds to 2023, is carried out in the second half of 2024,” and that the “audits that the Electoral Branch naturally carries out, which are 18 in total are events that were ratified at this meeting”.
