Foreign Ministry leads meeting on Venezuelan maritime reorganization and its strategic implications
MPPRE Press
Published at: 29/10/2026 05:58 PM
Authorities from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Trade, and the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), together with representatives of other State institutions, held a meeting with the objective of specifying sovereign theses and comprehensive strategies regarding the jurisdictional areas of the Venezuelan Caribbean, the definition of baselines and the strengthening of sovereignty in the insular maritime space.
The meeting was led by the Deputy Ministers for Multilateral Issues and Latin America, Joaquín Pérez Ayand Mauricio Rodríguez, respectively; accompanied by the director general of the Border Office and president of the Presidential Commission on Border Affairs (COPIAF), MG Gerardo Izquierdo Torres.
The event was attended by the Alm. Jorge Agüero Montes, general commander of the Bolivarian Navy; MG Jesús Villamizar Gómez, secretary of the Council for the Defense of the Nation, and representatives of ministries and bodies competent in the exercise of authority and administration of Venezuelan aquatic spaces.
During the meeting, director Izquierdo Torres stressed that “protecting borders is an integral responsibility of the State.”
In the course of the conference, Deputy Minister Pérez Ayexplained that, with the cartographic support of the Simón Bolívar Geographic Institute, the Foreign Ministry and the FANB, they have structured nine technical hypotheses relating to the maritime space of the Republic.
He explained that these alternatives will be clarified as the Directorate of Territorial Sovereignty and the Bolivarian Navy collect updated bathymetric data in the marine basin and emphasized the need to delimit strategic archipelagos in Venezuela.
Admiral José Jiménez Rattia presented the considerations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (CONVEMAR 1982) regarding the establishment of baselines, while the Commander General of the Navy ratified the operational and continuous presence of naval units in the national maritime territory.
In his virtual speech, the Venezuelan ambassador to Colombia, AJ Orlando Maniglia Ferreira, presented his considerations for updating the elements that make it possible to organize and organize in a strategic way the maritime spaces of the Republic on the Caribbean and Atlantic façade.
Deputy Minister Mauricio Rodríguez urged maintaining a broad geopolitical vision in the face of international dynamics, to protect aquatic borders and protect the country's strategic resources.
During the day, five working groups were set up that will conclude on technical, legal, strategic and geopolitical recommendations to submit proposals that ensure the country's sovereignty and the preservation of the living and non-living resources of the Sea of Venezuela.
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