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Dr Luncheon
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November 14, 2013 By admin
Opposition
legislators from Venezuela at the Eteringbang area with the sign that says “The
Essequibo Is Ours” on Guyanese soil
Guyanese
troops at the border with Venezuela are on high alert after recent noises in
the opposition camp in Caracas concerning Eteringbang on the Cuyuni River.
Opposition legislators also recently visited the border community and raised a
banner saying that Essequibo belongs to Venezuela.
Speaking
during his post-Cabinet media briefing on Wednesday, Head of the Presidential
Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon said such interest has been noted and the Joint
Services ranks stationed there have been put on alert. Dr Luncheon added that
the interest “is in the context of their attitude towards Guyana’s Essequibo,
one that is felt to be massaged in the eve of the imminent electoral process in
Venezuela”.
The Cabinet
secretary added that the historic opposition parties in Venezuela have fed on
this nationalistic overture which they feel would enhance their appeal. He
explained that members of Venezuela’s legislature have undertaken to visit and
have been visiting Eteringbang accompanied by the Venezuelan paramilitary.
He, however,
added, “Our Joint Services detachment in the location have been made aware of
these planned visits and have been ordered to remain vigilant in the context of
such visits.”
Legislators
who have been identified from opposition parties in Venezuela have had at least
one visit that has been documented and which occurred “with all the rules and
regulations in accordance with such visits”, Dr Luncheon said.
According to
the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, a group of Venezuelan opposition
deputies travelled to the Essequibo, in defence of Venezuela’s sovereignty
earlier this week.
The deputies
departed from Tumeremo on Sunday and headed to San Martín de Turumbán, east
Venezuela, in an attempt to make it to Eteringbang, in the Essequibo, after
crossing the Cuyuní River.
The group of
legislators who took part in the initiative were: Américo de Grazia
(LCR); María Corina Machado (independent); Leomagno Flores (AD); Andrés
Velásquez (LCR); Juan Pablo García (AD); José Gregorio Contreras (Copei); Luis
Barragán (Copei); Eduardo Gómez Sigala (Independent); Ángel Medina
(AD); Freddy Marcano (AD); Juan Guaidó (VP); and opposition leader
Leopoldo López (VP).
Investigation
under way
In September,
the government of Guyana investigated the circumstances of the ‘visit’ by a
group of Venezuelan civilians and military personnel to Eteringbang. This landing occurred on the same day
that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was on a state visit to Guyana –
August 31 – to hold talks with President Donald Ramotar. Dr
Luncheon later told the media that the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) soldiers had
objected to the Venezuelan soldiers landing on Guyanese soil with their weapons
although they were advised not to do so.
The 45-member
group had included six uniformed Venezuelan soldiers, three ex-Venezuelan
generals, and other persons in civilian dress. The El Universal had reported that the Venezuelans
went on a mission crossing “the Cuyaní” River and into the Guyana-Venezuela
area accompanied by officers of the Venezuelan Army. “We
came here to carry out a civil exercise of sovereignty, but we do not
understand what was Nicolás Maduro doing there (in Guyana),” said law student
Ricardo de Toma, a member of an organisation called “My Map of Venezuela also
Includes Our Essequibo”, who took part in the expedition, along with
administrator Jorge Luis Fuguett, and internationalist Rajihv Morillo.
De Toma
recalled that in spite of the mining projects Guyana has been developing in the
Essequibo, plus the granting of oil concessions ‘in front of the Venezuelan
Atlantic front’, President Maduro “paid a visit (to Guyana) only to spread an
ideological model”.
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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...”
Mapa que señala el Espacio
de Soberanía Marítima Venezolana que se reserva, como Mar Territorial mediante el Decreto Presidencial No 1152 del 09
de Julio de 1968
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