Venezuela yesterday said that Guyana’s position on its recent decree annexing maritime zones belonging to Guyana is “unacceptable” and the country’s foreign affairs minister Delcy Rodriguez said that without a resolution, there can be no unilateral use of those waters even as she invited dialogue on the matter.
“It is unacceptable that the new government of Guyana take this position with a territory that is under dispute, and who has also expressly recognized that this area of the sea is subject to an amicable settlement of territorial claims, as envisaged in the Geneva Agreement,” Rodriguez said in a statement published on the website of her Ministry. She also made some comments on the matter on Venezuelan television.
On Monday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here denounced a recent decree by Venezuela purporting to annex maritime zones belonging to Guyana, calling it a “flagrant violation” of international law. In its first official statement on the decree, which was made last month by
