The Venezuelan Minister of People’s Power for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López, denounced on Sunday that 28 foreign drilling and tanker vessels operate in the area in dispute with Guyana, assuming a violation of international law.

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“The Bolivarian National Armed Forces, in exercising its constitutional functions of guaranteeing national sovereignty and security in aquatic areas, categorically rejects the assertions made by the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, regarding the transit carried out by Ocean Patrol AB GUAIQUERÍ (PO-11), in waters that are sloping to be delimited,” reads the military statement.

Padrino Lopez specifies that in the execution of the Joint Military Operation “General Domingo Antonio Sifontes”, aimed at protecting the integrity of the maritime spaces of the Venezuelan Atlantic Façade and its incontrovertible territory, the Bolivarian Navy has verified, through satellite imagery, the presence of 28 foreign drilling vessels and tankers in the disputed area,

On the other hand, the minister denounces that “with the consent of the government of Guyana and in flagrant violation of international law” these vessels carry out activities of exploitation and marketing of hydrocarbons that lie underground.

“It is imperative to remember that the dispute has a valid legal instrument in force, deposited at the General Assembly of the United Nations, which governs its practical, political and satisfactory solution: the Geneva Agreement” emphasizes Padrino Lopez.

The head of the Venezuelan Armed Forces called out Guyana has no legal basis or legitimacy to unilaterally dispose of a space where he can exercise neither sovereignty nor jurisdiction.

Padrino Lopez reiterates that Venezuela is a country attacked by proxies of US imperialism such as the Exxon Mobile, also linked to fifth columns, so that the FANB rejects the biased and biased positions taken by some regional bodies which, says Padrino Lopez, far from contributing to the solution of the dispute between Venezuela and Guyana, are heralds of disaster, by promoting hostility and war-mongering policies.

“In the face of these incessant assaults, the armed institution, faithful to its anti-imperialist nature, prepares itself in perfect popular fusion military police, to respond to any threat and preserve the territorial integrity and peace of the Republic. ¡ We are the lineage of Bolivar and Chavez!… Venezuela ALL is respected!” maintains energetically the head of the Venezuelan army.

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