La Guayana Esequiba: Granger briefs UN SG on Venezuelan decree

martes, 8 de septiembre de 2015

Granger briefs UN SG on Venezuelan decree

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2015/news/stories/07/03/granger-briefs-un-sg-on-venezuelan-decree/

03 07-2015

In Barbados, President David Granger today briefed UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon over Venezuela’s recent maritime decree that aims to appropriate maritime zones of Guyana and other Caricom countries.

The Secretary General is in Barbados for the Caricom Heads of Government conference which has been overshadowed by the Venezuelan maritime decree after Granger spoke at length about it during his inaugural address to Heads yesterday.

GINA said that Granger informed the Secretary General of Venezuela’s latest aggression towards Guyana which has now contaminated relations with the entire Eastern Caribbean.

GINA said that Granger also told the UN Secretary General that the Good Officer process inquiring into the longstanding border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela had been exhausted. UN Secretaries General preside over the Good Officer process. GINA said that Ki-moon’s response was that a mission will be appointed and sent to Guyana with the aim of addressing the matter from a more in-depth and informed platform.

Granger also stated that his administration will stand ready to receive the UN mission when the time arises to deal with the issue.

“We expect the UN Secretary General to play an important role in reducing the level of tension and to support Guyana in having the decree withdrawn”, GINA reported Granger as saying.

It said that the two men and their teams met for a brief engagement at the Hilton Hotel.

2005 La Guayana Esequiba – Zona en Reclamación. Instituto Geográfico Simón Bolívar Primera Edición

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...”