Caracas, February 11 (EFE).- The Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) of Venezuela makes a “non-hostile presence in the Essequibo territory” – the area of some 160,000 square kilometers in dispute with Guyana – to advance its “comprehensive defense “, said this Sunday the Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino.
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“The FANB makes a non-hostile presence in the Essequibo territory to advance this sovereign purpose. Nothing will stop us!” Padrino expressed on the social network, a day after the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana, Hugh Todd, denounced a Venezuela’s military deployment near its border.
The Guyanese official said this Saturday that “there are some inconsistencies based” on what Venezuela is “doing on the international front in terms of diplomacy and what they are doing at home in terms of their military posture.”
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), based in the United States, published several satellite images that revealed that Venezuela was expanding its military base on the island of Ankoko and in the Punta Barima area, near Guyana.
The Executive of Nicolás Maduro denounced this Sunday, through a statement, a “malicious campaign” against the “constitutional obligation of the Venezuelan State to establish a comprehensive policy in the land, island and maritime border spaces to preserve, through Force Bolivarian National Navy, its territorial integrity, national sovereignty and the defense of the homeland.”
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He assured that this campaign is “prepared and financed” by the American oil company ExxonMobil and “seconded by the Government” of Guyana, actions that “contravene the fundamental principles of international law and constitute an aggression that seeks to destabilize the region, violating recent agreements” signed in December, when both South American countries agreed not to threaten each other.
The Chavista Government “reserves diplomatic actions” and “all those framed in international law to enforce” its rights, and urged Guyana to “assume its commitments, especially those contemplated in the 1966 Geneva Agreement, the only valid instrument between the parties to find a solution to the territorial dispute”.
Differences over border limits began with the Paris Arbitration Award of 1899 that gave sovereignty of the territory to the then British Guyana.
Venezuela declared that ruling null and void decades later and signed the 1966 agreement with the United Kingdom, which determined to create a commission to resolve the historic controversy, which did not materialize.
Guyana is based on the 1899 arbitration award and is committed to resolving the conflict through the process opened in the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
By: EFE
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