Tomado de.
Published
April 08, 2015
Venezuela's
government said a subsidiary of U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil was carrying out
"unauthorized" operations in disputed waters off Guyana and linked
them to Washington's recent diplomatic steps against Caracas.
"The
actions of (Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd.), with its intention to
carry out unauthorized operations within the maritime territory adjoining
Venezuela, contradict public international law and show its intent to subvert
it," Venezuela's Foreign Ministry said in a statement released Wednesday.
The ministry
said it sent a letter to the head of that Exxon unit, Jeff Simon, reiterating
its rejection of the company's intentions and asserting that they violate
bilateral obligations signed by Guyana and Venezuela.
It added in
that letter that Esso Exploration and Production Guyana's actions must be
viewed in light of President Barack Obama's executive order in March declaring
Venezuela an "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security
and foreign policy of the United States" and handing down sanctions
against seven officials.
"Venezuela
reaffirms that there is no demarcation of the marine and submarine areas of the
territorial space of the reclamation zone, and that the existing agreement
providing for non-incursion in these spaces remains fully valid," the
ministry said.
An Exxon
platform began exploratory drilling at the Stabroek Block off Guyana early last
month under a $200 million, 10-year agreement between the oil supermajor and
Georgetown.
Guyana's
Foreign Ministry at that time requested that Venezuela not interfere in the
exploration work at Stabroek, located in the Guyana-Suriname basin, which the
U.S. Geological Survey says has the second-largest unexplored oil potential in
the world after Greenland.
That basin
lies off the coast of a border region known as Essequibo, a 160,000-sq.-kilometer
(61,780-sq.-mile) area that is administered by Guyana and makes up more than
half of its territory but which Venezuela has claimed as its own since the 19th
century.
EFE
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...”
LA GUAYANA ESEQUIBA
http://laguayanaesequiba.blogspot.com/2008/01/la-guayana-esequiba.html
Terminología sobre cómo referenciar la
Zona en Reclamación-Guayana Esequiba.
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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