“To all companies that intend to enter Venezuelan waters illegally or into undelimited waters, Venezuela will give a legal response in accordance with International Law, Venezuela does not recognize any license from Guyana in its waters to be delimited or in its undelimited waters; “We do not recognize any license from Guyana under any aspect,” said the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, after holding a meeting with the High Political and Military Command of the Revolution, from Caracas.
The head of state stressed that the Government of Guyana has taken a wrong path in which the violation of international legality prevails, of provocation and offense to the Venezuelan people «they have attempted to grant a set of licenses for oil exploitation in waters that are in areas not delimited, which are in controversy, and in areas that have always belonged to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
In this sense, the national leader mentioned as an example of peace and respect the right and international agreements reached with Trinidad and Tobago to share joint gas fields that exist between both nations, such as the Great Manatee.
He pointed out that in many places in the world these types of situations have generated conflicts: «Not us, with Trinidad and Tobago we have signed historic agreements and we are about to sign the contracts for the peaceful, solidarity and cooperative exploitation of the joint gas fields between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela.”
In this order of ideas, the constitutional president reiterated that after the wrong path that the president of Guyana has taken, “Venezuela will advance in carrying out the Consultative Referendum called by the National Assembly (AN), with the objective of ratifying before the world that the territory of Guayana Esequiba belongs to the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
