The Caribbean Group (CARICOM) notes the choice of the Venezuelan Nationwide Meeting to conduct a well-liked referendum on defending Venezuela’s declare of the Essequibo.
CARICOM additional notes that two of the questions accepted to be posed within the Referendum, if answered within the affirmative, would authorise the federal government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela to embark on the annexation of territory, which constitutes a part of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, and to create a state inside Venezuela referred to as Guyana Essequibo.
CARICOM reaffirms that worldwide regulation strictly prohibits the federal government of 1 State from unilaterally seizing, annexing or incorporating the territory of one other state. An affirmative vote as aforesaid opens the door to the potential violation of this elementary tenet of worldwide regulation.
It’s to be emphasised that the land and water in query — the Essequibo Area of Guyana — includes greater than two-thirds of the entire of Guyana itself.
CARICOM notes that the language of two questions accepted to be posed within the Referendum seeks an affirmation and implementation of Venezuela’s stance on the difficulty “by all means, in response to/with the Legislation.” It’s open to affordable individuals to conclude that “by all means”, contains technique of pressure or struggle.
CARICOM earnestly hopes that Venezuela will not be elevating the prospect of utilizing pressure or navy means to get its personal means on this controversy over territory. In any case, it has been the long-standing place of Latin American and Caribbean counties, together with Venezuela, that our area should stay a zone of peace.
In the meantime, CARICOM insists that the Referendum proposed by Venezuela has no validity, bearing, or standing in worldwide regulation in relation to this controversy; the Referendum is a purely home assemble, however its abstract impact is prone to undermine peace, tranquility, safety, and extra, in our area.
CARICOM reiterates its help for the judicial course of and expresses the hope that Venezuela will have interaction absolutely in that course of earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice which has decided that it has the jurisdiction within the case introduced earlier than it to find out the validity of the 1899 Arbitral Award which Venezuela questions. The Court docket’s remaining resolution will guarantee a decision that’s peaceable, equitable and in accordance with worldwide regulation.
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