GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Two leaders from the 15-member Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) have sought to guarantee the federal government of Guyana that CARICOM member states are individually backing Guyana that its borders are inviolable and the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) have to be used to settle the territorial controversy with Venezuela.
The reassurance got here from the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, and the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, who spoke right here on Saturday.
“On this specific case, in our view, Guyana’s place has been robust, it has been unwavering, and it’s earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, and we’ll again them 150 % with that,” stated Mottley, who was in a information convention together with Gonsalves.
Mottley stated she is counting on CARICOM Chairman, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, and the Vincentian chief who’s Chairman of the Neighborhood of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to “maintain the temperatures down even when there isn’t a settled end result on the dispute that can be historically anticipated” over Guyana’s 160,000 sq. kilometer Essequibo County.
Guyana has requested the ICJ to declare that the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Award is the whole, last, and excellent settlement, however Venezuela doesn’t acknowledge that court docket’s jurisdiction.
The ICJ is predicted to rule in Guyana’s request to dam Venezuela’s referendum, as presently worded, to declare Essequibo the State of Venezuela and to care for all present and future inhabitants of that Guyanese county and grant them citizenship and identification playing cards.
Venezuela’s December 3 referendum additionally seeks a preferred vote to reject the ICJ’s jurisdiction within the territorial controversy.
Gonsalves stated Guyana and Venezuela “should uphold that the area is certainly one of peace and that there can be no power used or menace of power singly or collectively.” He declined to supply particulars however emphasised that “CARICOM has at all times defended the territorial inviolability of Guyana.”
The Barbadian Prime Minister added that Venezuela can also be a good friend and, due to this fact, “we wish to see the Caribbean stay a zone of peace appears to have excited condemnation, Ralph, on you and me, in some quarters.”
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