Venezuela 🇻🇪 vs. Guyana 🇬🇾 Watch Thread - Essequibo/Esequiba/Esequibo
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Kooley_High
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Whats funny about this is Venezuela already is sitting on a vast oil reserve bigger than some middle eastern countries.
This all about support Maduros regime then anything. It will be a costly mistake
This all about support Maduros regime then anything. It will be a costly mistake
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DrBanneker
Space is the Place
What a disaster. This slipped under my radar but this could be another war to pop off. Unfortunately it is likely to be short and against Guyana barring big power threats.
ADevilYouKhow
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Venezuela is global south good guys.
In 2019, the then-Minister of Public Security and 2nd VP Khemraj Ramjattan gave me this book when me and my colleagues met with him at his office.
President David Granger wrote the foreword
The ICJ is probably going to rule in favor of Guyana today.
Every Venezuelan whether they are Chavismo, opposition, or neither, believes that Essequibo is theirs and that the British messed them up.
President David Granger wrote the foreword
The ICJ is probably going to rule in favor of Guyana today.
Every Venezuelan whether they are Chavismo, opposition, or neither, believes that Essequibo is theirs and that the British messed them up.
The ICJ ruled in favor of Guyana
World Court orders Venezuela to refrain from action in border dispute with Guyana
December 1, 202310:55 AM ESTUpdated 29 min ago
People march in support of a referendum over disputed territory, in Caracas
THE HAGUE, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Judges at the World Court on Friday ordered Venezuela to refrain from taking any action that would alter the situation on the ground in a potentially oil-rich territory that is the subject of a border dispute with Guyana, which controls the area.
The court did not expressly forbid Venezuela to hold a planned Dec. 3 referendum over its rights to the region around the Esequibo river, the subject of the long-running border dispute, as Guyana has requested.
However, judges at the International Court of Justice - as the World Court is formally known - made clear that any concrete action to alter the status quo should be stopped.
"The court observes that the situation that currently prevails in the territory in dispute is that Guyana administers and exercises control over that area," presiding judge Joan Donoghue said.
"Venezuela must refrain from taking any action which would modify that situation," she added.
Venezuela did not immediately react to the court's ruling.
Venezuelans will vote on Sunday in a five-question referendum backed by the government of President Nicolas Maduro, which analysts say is likely to be approved.
The referendum asks Venezuelans, among other things, if they agree to a plan to incorporate the region and create a state called Guayana Esequiba.
Guyana's President Irfaan Ali hailed the court's ruling in a statement.
"As the court has made clear, Venezuela is prohibited from annexing or trespassing upon Guyanese territory or taking any other actions – regardless of the outcome of its referendum on December 3 – that would alter the status quo in which Guyana administers and controls the Esequibo region," the statement said.
The ICJ said in April it had jurisdiction, though a final ruling could be years away. Venezuela has maintained the issue should be resolved by the two countries.
The 160,000 square km (61,776 square mile) territory around the Esequibo river is mostly impenetrable jungle.
Venezuela reactivated its claim over the area in recent years after the discovery of offshore oil and gas. Last month Guyana announced another significant discovery in offshore areas.
Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg and Bart Meijer, additional reporting by Kiana Wilburg in Georgetown; Editing by Alex Richardson
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UN court bars Venezuela from altering Guyana’s control over disputed territory
The U.N. top court has ordered Venezuela not to take any action that would alter Guyana’s control over a disputed territory, but did not specifically ban Venezuela from holding its planned referendum Sunday on the territory’s future.
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UN court bars Venezuela from altering Guyana’s control over disputed territory
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court on Friday ordered Venezuela not to take any action that would alter Guyana’s control over a disputed territory, but did not specifically ban it from holding a referendum Sunday on the territory’s future.
Guyana had asked the International Court of Justice to order a halt to parts of the planned referendum. The court verdict did not refer to the referendum, but it ruled that Venezuela must “refrain from taking any action which would modify that situation that currently prevails” in the disputed Essequibo region, which makes up some two-thirds of Guyana.
The legally binding ruling remains in place until a case brought by Guyana against Venezuela on the future of the region is considered by the court.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The United Nations’ top court is set to announce Friday whether it will order Venezuela to halt parts of a referendum planned for Sunday on the future of a disputed territory that makes up two-thirds of Guyana.
Venezuela does not recognize the International Court of Justice’s jurisdiction in the decades-old dispute over the Essequibo region and is expected to press ahead with the referendum regardless of what its judges decide.
At urgent hearings in November, lawyers for Guyana said the vote is designed to pave the way for annexation by Venezuela of the Essequibo — a territory larger than Greece that is rich in oil and minerals. They called on the world court to halt the referendum in its current form.
But Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez defiantly told the court: " Nothing will prevent the referendum scheduled for Dec. 3 from being held.”
Venezuela has always considered Essequibo as its own because the region was within its boundaries during the Spanish colonial period, and it has long disputed the border decided by international arbitrators in 1899, when Guyana was still a British colony.
President Nicolás Maduro and his allies are encouraging voters to answer “yes” to all the questions in Sunday’s referendum, one of which proposes creating a Venezuelan state in the Essequibo territory and granting Venezuelan citizenship to the area’s current and future residents.
After years of fruitless mediation, Guyana went to the world court in 2018, asking judges to rule that the 1899 border decision is valid and binding. Venezuela argues that a 1966 agreement to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the original arbitration.
The court has ruled the case is admissible and that it has jurisdiction but is expected to take years to reach a final decision. In the meantime, Guyana wants to stop the referendum in its current form.
“The collective decision called for here involves nothing less than the annexation of the territory in dispute in this case. This is a textbook example of annexation,” Paul Reichler, an American lawyer representing Guyana, told judges at last month’s hearings.