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Venezuela condemns UK diplomat’s “interference” in territorial dispute

Jun 17, 2015 News

A recent statement issued by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela revealed that the state is not too pleased with the fact that British High Commissioner to Guyana, James Gregory Quinn had dismissed Venezuela’s most recent claim on Guyana’s oil-rich maritime territory.
Quinn has said that Venezuela’s claim “lacks solid ground.”
Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro on May 27 signed a decree that claims an entire portion of Guyana’s territory in the Atlantic Ocean and includes the Stabroek Block where a significant portion of oil was recently discovered by US oil giant, ExxonMobil.
Quinn was quoted in sections of the media as saying that “the UK is clear that the Venezuela-Guyana land border is, and should be, as agreed under the 1899 Arbitration Agreement.”
Quinn contended that the 1966 Geneva Agreement did not change that, adding “indeed Article V(2) of that agreement states: ‘No new claim, or enlargement of an existing claim, to territorial sovereignty…shall be asserted while this Agreement is in force, nor shall any claim whatsoever be asserted otherwise than in the Mixed Commission.’
Given these international agreements, Quinn says the claim is baseless.
“Connected to this we see no grounds in international law which would justify recent Venezuelan claims to what we consider to be Guyanese territorial waters,” the High Commissioner stated.
Recently, Venezuela “categorically condemned” Quinn’s “interference…in matters that are exclusive and total responsibility of two sovereign countries, as it is referred to the historical territorial dispute between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana.”
Venezuela said, “True to its colonial heritage, the High Commissioner Quinn offends Venezuela with its intrusive and violate international law declarations and seeks to hinder the sisters relations between two neighboring countries with their opinions. These statements are part of a campaign of lies and intrigues in which ExxonMobil and international media, which aims to bring about conflict between two brotherly countries involved.”
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela claimed that it still wants dialogue that remains true to the principles of the Peace Diplomacy Eternal promoted by Commander Hugo Chavez.

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