NASSAU, Bahamas, The Bahamas authorities has criticized Venezuela’s newest transfer to annex elements of Guyana in its ongoing border dispute with the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) nation.
“I’m disheartened that in spite of everything that CARICOM has achieved to guard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela throughout a most attempting financial and political interval in its historical past, Vene, zeal ought to now search to annex territory in a CARICOM state,” Prime Minister Phillip Davis stated in a press release.
He stated he wished to “make it clear” that the Bahamas helps Guyana “and its sovereignty and territorial integrity, as was settled by the 1899 arbitral award, including “these borders have outlined the territory of Guyana since its independence in 1966.
“The Bahamas calls for that Venezuela respect the settled borders, abide by the December 1 1 1uling of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, and chorus from any actions that will disturb these current borders.”
Davis will be a part of his CARICOM leaders in a while Friday to debate the state of affairs. Earlier this month, the 15-member grouping stated Venezuela can not, by a referendum or in any other case, violate worldwide legislation and disrespect the order of the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) in its ongoing border dispute with Guyana over the mineral and forest-rich county of Essequibo.
“Additional, CARICOM calls for that the Caribbean be revered as a Zone of Peace and that nothing must be achieved to disrupt the area’s tranquility, which is crucial to the financial prosperity and social well-being of all CARICOM and Latin America international locations,” it added.
Following the referendum on Sunday, which the Venezuela authorities stated had been accepted by at the least 95 p.c of the voters, President Nicolas Maduro introduced that overseas corporations working in Essequibo must withdraw inside three months, asserting his proper to take action after Venezuelan voters backed the DecembeDecember 3ndum to looking for possession of the world.
“I suggest a particular legislation to ban all corporations that work underneath Guyana concessions from any transaction. They’ve three months to withdraw” as soon as his proposal is accepted,” Maduro added.
Whereas Maduro hasn’t but dispatched any navy forces to implement his calls for, he stated he would create a military unit for the disputed territory however that it could be based mostly in a neighboring Venezuelan state.
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