December 5, 2023
Fellow Guyanese,
I tackle you on an unsettling growth in relation to the illegal declare by Venezuela to Guyana’s Essequibo Area, which constitutes greater than two-thirds of Guyana’s nationwide territory.
Tonight, President Maduro introduced a number of measures which his Authorities intends to absorb implementing the result of the referendum held on December 3, 2023.
As I made clear from the date the referendum was first introduced, it is a direct risk to Guyana’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence, and in violation of basic rules of worldwide regulation enshrined within the UN and OAS Charters.
The measures introduced are in blatant disregard of the order given by the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice on December 1, 2023. Guyana views this as an imminent risk to its territorial integrity and can intensify precautionary measures to safeguard its territory.
I’ve tonight spoken to the Secretary Normal of the United Nations and a number of other leaders alerting them of those harmful developments and the determined actions of President Maduro that fly within the face of worldwide regulation and represent a grave risk to worldwide peace and safety.
Additionally, Guyana will tomorrow, deliver this matter to the United Nations Safety Council for applicable motion to be taken by that physique.
Additional, we’ve engaged CARICOM, the OAS, the Commonwealth and lots of of our bilateral companions together with the USA of America, Brazil, the UK and France. The Guyana Defence Drive is on full alert and has engaged its army counterparts together with the US Southern Command.
By defying the Courtroom, Venezuela has rejected worldwide regulation, the rule of regulation typically, basic justice and morality, and the preservation of worldwide peace and safety. They’ve actually declared themselves an outlaw nation.
Nothing they do, nonetheless, will cease Guyana from continuing with the case within the ICJ, or cease the ICJ from in the end issuing its closing Judgment on the deserves of the case.
We won’t permit our territory to be violated nor the event of our nation to be stymied by this determined risk.
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