Arreaza rejects Almagro's statements: To protect illegal activities is to promote unnecessary conflicts

Published at: 02/03/2025 08:03 AM

Through his Telegram channel, the Secretary General of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America — Peoples' Trade Agreement (ALBA-TCP), Jorge Arreaza, rejected statements by the Secretary of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, in which he protects the illegal activities of the ExxonMobil vessel in undelimited waters of Guiana Esequiba between Venezuela and Guyana.

“To protect economic activities in undelimited waters is to jeopardize peace and promote unnecessary tensions and conflicts,” he said, stressing that Almagro needs an urgent class in Public International Law, specifically Law of the Sea.

In this regard, he explained that “the waters in which the ExxonMobil ship was located are marine and submarine areas pending delimitation between Venezuela and Guyana. No company should carry out any economic activity in these areas until coastal countries negotiate and agree on the corresponding delimitation.”

For this reason, he denounced that the OAS, with Almagro at the helm, all it has done is promote destabilization in the region.

“That's what the moribund Secretariat of the OAS has been dedicated to since Almagro took office: to generating conflicts, coups d'etat and threatening the peace and security of the countries of Our Latin America and the Caribbean,” he said.

It is important to remember that Venezuela categorically rejected the fact that the administration of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, under the presidency of Irfaan Ali, incurs a serious violation of international law by having disputed territory and granting illegal concessions for the exploitation of energy resources in a maritime area pending delimitation.

Mazo News Team