Guyana siempre debe de afirmar la inviolabilidad de concesión de 1899

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Guyana must always assert the inviolability of the 1899 award

Posted By Stabroek staff On December 13, 2010 @ 5:05 am In Letters |

Dear Editor,

“In Guyana, the course of febrile politics and ethnic rivalry between the two major political parties has led to some calculated misrepresentation and sheer propaganda on this highly sensitive issue.

“Indeed, on occasions, the differences have veered so sharply off course as to impair the national response to the external threats of the territorial integrity.

It is also indisputable that the external claimants have exploited these cleavages in Guyanese society to their own strategic advantage.”

The foregoing will be found in the preface to the very scholarly book Anglo-American Diplomacy and the Reopening of the Guyana-Venezuela Boundary Controversy, 1961-1966 by Cedric L Joseph.

It is my firm conviction that the quoted passage succinctly expressed the germane underlying need yet to be overcome within Guyana so as to realise the unstinted support of all Guyana against the spurious claim by Venezuela, resulting in the ongoing controversy on the inviolability of the 1899 arbitral award.

It is my further conviction that the title of the book is perhaps somewhat irresponsible. The drafters of the 1966 Geneva Agreement took particular care and in the choice of language employed, made sure that the re-examination of pertinent documents did not concede a hint of reopening the claim by Venezuela to ⅝ of the then British Guiana. The 1899 award is still completely intact and remains inviolate.

Indeed, this is a highly sensitive issue as described by Cedric Joseph, and Guyana must be ever alert in ensuring that any move to infringe the official status quo of the award is not countenanced. It is incumbent on Guyana to assert at all times and at every opportunity the inviolability of the 1899 arbitral award.

Yours faithfully, David DeGroot

Nota del editor del blog: Al referenciarse a la República Cooperativa de Guyana se deben de tener en cuenta los 159.500Km2, de territorios ubicados al oeste del río Esequibo conocidos con el nombre de Guayana Esequiba o Zona en Reclamación sujetos al Acuerdo de Ginebra del 17 de febrero de 1966.

Territorios estos sobre los cuales el gobierno Venezolano en representación de la Nación venezolana se reservo sus derechos sobre los territorios de la Guayana Esequiba en su nota del 26 de mayo de 1966 al reconocerse al nuevo Estado de Guyana .

“...por lo tanto, Venezuela reconoce como territorio del nuevo Estado, el que se sitúa al este de la margen derecha del río Esequibo y reitera ante la comunidad internacional, que se reserva expresamente sus derechos de soberanía territorial sobre la zona que se encuentra en la margen izquierda del precitado río; en consecuencia, el territorio de la Guayana Esequiba sobre el cual Venezuela se reserva expresamente sus derechos soberanos, limita al Este con el nuevo Estado de Guyana, a través de la línea del río Esequibo, tomando éste desde su nacimiento hasta su desembocadura en el Océano Atlántico...”