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26-06-2015
Venezuelan president Nicholas Maduro will address his
country’s Parliament today on its new claims to Guyana’s maritime territory.
Maduro was scheduled to address the Parliament
yesterday but this was rescheduled, Venezuelan state television VTV reported
yesterday. VTV said that the sitting will take place at 10am today in the
Federal Legislative Palace in Caracas.
Venezuelan newspaper El Universal also reported the
rescheduling and it said Maduro will present his stance on the border
controversy between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo. Maduro will
present “a formal position on the historic claim of the dispute of the
Essequibo territory usurped by British imperialism two centuries ago” and which
remains an issue between Venezuela with Guyana, it said.
Nicolas
Maduro
Maduro had announced on Monday that he would go to the
National Assembly on Thursday to set out his stance vis-à-vis a territorial
“dispute” with Guyana over the waters of the Atlantic Ocean where oil company
ExxonMobil found an important oil deposit.
“The Congress speaker will convene a parliament
meeting on Thursday, and I am going to attend as Head of State and Head of
government to present the official stance in defense of the motherland and the
historic claim of the Essequibo,” Maduro was quoted as saying.
The president added that he would call for
“civil-military union” to face the “provocation from ExxonMobil” and denounce
“an international maneuver from the right wing to provoke Venezuela with border
issues.”
“I will denounce the international maneuver from the
right-wing to provoke Venezuela. They will fail. And I am going to call for the
civil-military union,” Maduro had said.
On May 26th, Maduro issued a Decree purporting to
annex maritime zones belonging to Guyana. The Decree was gazetted in Venezuela
on May 27th. Georgetown has said that the Decree of May 26th was a “baseless
and shameless” bid to usurp Guyana’s territory and a “flagrant violation” of
international law. Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge told Parliament
that a definitive solution must be found and signalled that the government
would be moving for a juridical settlement of the border controversy.
Questions have been raised over the motives behind the
decree and observers point out that it comes just after US oil firm ExxonMobil
announced what could be the first major oil find in Guyana’s waters. Maps
issued by Caracas show the ExxonMobil well site within the zone now being
claimed.
Last week, President David Granger told Stabroek News
that Venezuela’s recent claim on Guyana’s maritime territory is a “legal
absurdity” and ExxonMobil will continue to work as scheduled.
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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