President Maduro reiterated that sooner rather than later Guyana must return to the Geneva Agreement

Published at: 02/03/2024 08:19 PM

The President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, in an Analysis of the VIII Summit of Heads of State and Government of CELAC on the dispute with Guyana over the Essequibo, stated that sooner rather than later that country will have to return to the Geneva Agreement (1966).

“Sooner rather than later, Guyana must return to the Geneva Agreement as the only legal instrument to settle the dispute over the territory of Guiana Essequiba, Venezuela has not recognized it in 75 years and will never recognize the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as an instance to reach a solution to the controversy left by the British Empire,” the president reiterated in a program on Venezolana de Televisión (VTV).

He reiterated that the Geneva Agreement of 1966 must be the only way to reach a satisfactory solution for both Guyana and Venezuela, “and no judicial decision will be satisfactory for the parties.” Referring to the meeting he held with the president of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, which he described as a gesture of good neighbourliness.

“I salute the gestures of good neighbourliness, I question when we have to question the gestures of bad neighbourliness, when a British warship gets in, when the Southern Command comes in I question it, I rebuke it and I think that all of Latin America and the Caribbean rebukes it, but when there is a gesture of good neighbourliness, welcome. Venezuela is a country of peace.”

He asserted that there was no doubt that the route to follow is the Geneva Agreement and the Guyanese government's reaction to admit that the only way forward is negotiation.

Mazo News Team