KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – President Dr. Irfaan Ali, Thursday, reiterated Guyana’s place concerning the possession of the Essequibo area that Venezuela claims.
A Guyana authorities assertion stated Ali outlined the place to Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) leaders right here to take part within the talks between Ali and Venezuelan chief Nicolas Maduro.
The talks are being facilitated by the Neighborhood of States of Latin America and the Caribbean (CELAC) and the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM).
Based on the assertion, Ali briefed his regional colleagues, together with CARICOM chairman and Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, and her counterparts from Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, and St. Lucia.
“President Ali met with a number of CARICOM heads the place he made a presentation reiterating our basic place in accepting the invitation to take part within the engagement, i.e., that the border controversy with which the Worldwide Court docket of Justice shouldn’t be up for dialogue, negotiation or deliberation.
“Guyana’s place is and can stay that the controversy have to be resolved at and by the ICJ. President Ali reminded CARICOM that the referral of this matter to the ICJ is per and underneath the Geneva Settlement,” the assertion stated.
It stated that President Ali additional reiterated “emphatically that Guyana’s solely intention is to pursue a course that may safe and guarantee peace and stability in our area and respect for Guyana’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
“President Ali additionally famous the consistency of CARICOM’s place that each one events should abide by Worldwide Legislation, respect the result of the ICJ course of, and desist from the menace/ or use of power.”
Ali clarified to CARICOM leaders “that issues consequential don’t have anything to do with the ICJ case or issues linked along with that.”
The assertion stated that through the second section of the deliberations right here, “President Ali and President Maduro will meet throughout the desk with CARICOM, CELAC, Brazil, and UN observers.”
Final Sunday, Venezuela staged a referendum by which it stated 95 p.c of the votes solid supported the annexation of the Essequibo area. President Maduro quickly introduced that international corporations working in Essequibo must withdraw inside three months.
He stated he was additionally proposing a particular regulation to ban all corporations that work underneath Guyana concessions from any transaction and that Caracas would create a army unit for the disputed territory however that it will be primarily based in a neighboring Venezuelan state.
Earlier than the referendum, the ICJ dominated that Venezuela should not take any motion to grab Essequibo, which Guyana has administered for over a century.
In its ruling, the Court docket stated, “each events shall chorus from any motion which could worsen or prolong the dispute earlier than the Court docket or make it more difficult to resolve.
“The courtroom emphasizes that the query of the validity of the 1899 Award and the associated query of the definitive settlement of the land boundary dispute between Guyana and Venezuela are issues for the courtroom to resolve on the deserves stage,” it added.
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