Guyana will have to ‘accept sovereignty’ Venezuelan in Essequibo, says Maduro

The Guyana asked the highest court of the United Nations to ratify the approved borders in an 1899 report, which Venezuela does not recognize. Venezuelans resort to the Geneva Agreement signed in 1966, before the independence of the UK Guyana, which annulled this report and established the foundations for a negotiated agreement.

“Irafaan Ali, Guyana’s president, an exxonmobil official sooner or later, will have to sit with me to talk and accept Venezuelan sovereignty,” Maduro said after voting in Caracas in the elections for governors and deputies of Parliament.

There I told AFP this week that he saw the election as a “threat” to his country, although he also stated that it fits into the structure of Chavista “propaganda”.

The Venezuelan election includes a governor, eight regional deputies and legislators for thisquibus.

These positions are symbolic, as the area is under the control of Guyana.

“It is the birth of the new Venezuelan sovereignty,” celebrated Maduro. “The Guyana Cooperative Republic has been an illegal occupant as a legacy of the British Empire who illegally occupied this territory.”