LONDON.- The Minister of Defense of the regime VenezuelaVladimir Padrino López, classified the sending of the military ship as a “provocation” by the United Kingdom, which recently announced the presence of the upcoming arrival of a military member in Guyana, one of its former colonies.
“A warship in waters to be delimited? And then? And the commitment to good neighborliness and peaceful coexistence? And the agreement not to threaten and use mutual force under any circumstances?” Padrino López published in X in reference to the agreement signed on December 14 during a first face-to-face meeting between the dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and the president of Guyana, Irfaan Ali.
“We remain alert to these provocations that put the peace and stability of the Caribbean and our America at risk!” concluded the Venezuelan military chief.
“The ‘HMS Trent’ will go this month towards Guyanaour regional ally and partner within the Commonwealth, for a series of commitments in the region,” the ministry said British of Defense in a statement.
According to the BBC, the bouquet must participate in military exercises after Christmas with other allies of Guyanaa British colony until 1966. The British network did not specify which other countries are involved.
London had already shown its support a Guyana with the trip a earlier this week from David Rutley, head of British diplomacy in America.
The ‘HMS Trent’, which usually operates in the Mediterranean Sea, had already moved a early December to the Caribbean to fight drug trafficking.
Venezuela maintains that Essequibo, a territory of 160,000 km2 rich in natural resources, is part of its territory, as in 1777, when it was a colony of Spain, and appeals to the Geneva agreement, signed in 1966, before the independence of Guyana of the United Kingdom, which laid the groundwork for a negotiated solution and annulled an 1899 award, which Georgetown calls for a the ICJ to ratify.
Caracas has claimed this territory for more than a century, although it intensified its initiative after the discovery of vast oil reserves in the region in 2015 by the American company ExxonMobil.
Tensions between both countries increased after the holding of a referendum on the sovereignty of Essequibo on December 3 in Venezuela.
However, President Ali met with the dictator Maduro and reduced the tension after their meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, although they did not resolve their underlying differences.
Source: With information from AFP
