The Commonwealth Secretary-Common, the Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland, KC, has expressed deep concern on the 21 September choice of the Venezuelan Nationwide Meeting to undertake a referendum on the standing of the Essequibo area, a part of the sovereign territory of Authorities of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana set for 3 December.
Talking on the escalation the Secretary-Common mentioned: “The Commonwealth stands with the Authorities and other people of Guyana and with our companions in CARICOM in expressing our concern over the questions within the deliberate referendum.“And the Commonwealth continues to face for the rule of legislation and, ‘reaffirms its agency and steadfast assist for the upkeep and preservation of the sovereign and territorial integrity of Guyana, and the unobstructed train of its rights to develop the whole thing of its territory for the advantage of its folks’.”
The 5 questions authorised by the Nationwide Electoral Council to be included within the referendum undermine Guyana’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and their intent is opposite to worldwide legislation. Query 5 proposes the creation of Venezuelan state of Guyana Essequibo and an accelerated plan for giving Venezuelan citizenship and identification playing cards to the Guyanese inhabitants.
Worldwide legislation prohibits the seizure and annexation by one nation of the territory of one other. The language in these questions contributes to heightened stress and is a menace to peace and stability in a member state of our Commonwealth Household and certainly within the wider Caribbean area.
On the final assembly of the Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana, held on 17 September 2023, the Group, “Reaffirmed its unwavering assist for the judicial course of underway earlier than the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, chosen by the Secretary Common of the United Nations beneath the 1966 Geneva Settlement and the Group continues to encourage Venezuela to take part within the mentioned course of.”
The Worldwide Courtroom of Justice (ICJ) decided in April of this yr that it had authorized jurisdiction over this longstanding subject and the Commonwealth helps using the ICJ to adjudicate on the matter. The referendum, to be held one month earlier than Presidential elections in Venezuela goes towards the spirit of peaceable dispute decision.
The assertion issued after the Commonwealth Ministerial Group on Guyana on the 17 September 2023 will be discovered here.
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