Venezuela- “Guyana has closed off diplomatic channel in negotiation with Venezuela, says Roy Daza” Caracas Vice President of the Latin American Parliament (Parlatino), Venezuela, Roy Daza, said today that the government’s position on the Venezuela-Guyana Essequibo dispute “no longer gives way to continue negotiations through diplomatic channels “. “Now we must reconsider the whole negotiation on this area, since Guyana has taken a de facto approach” said the parliamentarian in a statement released by the National Assembly (AN). “Guyana has taken a de facto approach, which has redifined the situation”, said Daza, in reference to Guyana’s classification of President Nicolas Maduro’s decree (issued last May to create military maritime defense zones in the disputed area) as illegal.
The vice president of the Parlatino invited the government of Guyana to rectify the position “because there is no longer a political, nor diplomatic way out, as it is an aggression to have permitted such powerful transnational Exxon Mobil to venture into the disputed territory between the two countries”.
Daza, who is also the head of the government’s United Socialist Party, said that Venezuela has insisted in diplomatic and peaceful means to settle the border dispute, “and has never considered military imposition.” He said the permission granted to the US company by Guyana to start oil extraction operations “can not happen.” “Now the most important thing is that Venezuela reaffirms its position over the dispute of Essequibo”, said Daza.Omar Gonzalez Moreno, an opposition deputy in the National Assembly, spoke about a “defensive military mobilization in the homeland” to counteract the ambitions of the government of Guyana.“The Guyana border crisis is a product of the permissive and weak political administrations of Hugo Chavez and Maduro,” Gonzalez said in a press release.
The MP described as “clumsy” the efforts of the Venezuelan government that in his opinion have encouraged “the ambitions of Guyana” for not making it clear the Venezuelan sovereignty over the territory in dispute.For the parliamentary, the Government’s desire to promote political influence in the hemisphere has given the opportunity to Guyanese to unleash a subtle and permanent policy of expansion and possession of the claimed area, which led to the granting of permits for Oil exploration and extraction to Exxon Mobile.
Gonzalez called for a “defensive military mobilization inside the Republic to protect the homeland and to assert the rights of Venezuela over the Essequibo”.
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