@Django posted:

Venezuela doubles down on its claim to Guyana Essequibo

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MEXICO CITY, Mexico, September 7, 2021 - The government of Venezuela will not be relinquishing its claim to the Essequibo region of Guyana any time soon according to a preliminary agreement reached with its parliamentary opposition at a dialogue process in Mexico.

According to Rodríguez, the two partial agreements refer to the ratification and defense of Venezuela’s claim to the Essequibo region Guyana which is the subject of an International Court of Justice (ICJ) litigation, and the protection of Venezuela's economy and the social safety of the people."

"We agreed in a profound declaration of support, respect for the history and the right that our Homeland has over the territory of Guyana, we emphasized that the 1966 Gineva Agreement is the only instrument that we recognize to settle in a friendly and bilateral manner the controversies that may arise in border matters with Guyana", he detailed.

1966 Geneva Agreement does not in any way, shape or form over-ride the formidable decision made on the Venezuela-British Guyana Boundary Arbitration of 1899 regarding the boundaries of Guyana; then British Guyana.

Information from one of the numerous sources on the demarcation of the Venezuela-British Guyana Boundary ---

Guyana-Venezuela: The “controversy” over the arbitral award of 1899, September 11, 2015  essequibo, geneva, great britain, Guyana,  Odeen Ishmael, United States, Venezuela, Washington

The tribunal and the award

The arbitral tribunal was finally set up in 1898 and began to receive written submissions from Venezuela and Great Britain. Oral presentations were made by the legal team on each side from June to September 1899 and finally, on October 3, the tribunal announced its award by upholding Great Britain’s ownership of most of the claimed territory west of the Essequibo River but denying the British entitlement to the upper Cuyuni basin and an area of land on the eastern bank near the mouth of the Orinoco River. Thus ended the dispute which had existed since 1840.

The territory awarded to the British (on behalf of colonial British Guiana) included a 4,000 square-mile block south of the Pakaraima Mountains bordered by the Cotinga River on the west, the Takutu River on the south and the Ireng River on the east and north. (This portion of territory, originally claimed by Venezuela in its case before the arbitral tribunal, was awarded to Brazil on June 6, 1904, following another arbitration conducted by the King of Italy after the Brazilian government claimed ownership based on historical occupation. When Venezuela in 1962 renewed its claim to the territory west of the Essequibo River on its alleged grounds that the 1899 award was null and void, that nation did not make any claim—and has never since made any—to that section of territory awarded to Brazil.)

Both Venezuela and Great Britain accepted the award of the tribunal and, in keeping with it, a mixed boundary commission appointed jointly by the two countries, carried out a survey and demarcation, between 1901 and 1905, of the boundary as stipulated by the award with an adjustment based on the British Guiana-Brazilian arbitration award.

The resulting boundary line was set out on a map signed by the boundary commissioners in Georgetown, British Guiana, on January 7, 1905. A separate agreement signed three days later by the commissioners stipulated: “That they regard this agreement as having a perfectly official character with respect to the acts and rights of both governments in the territory demarcated. . .” [Agreement Between the British and Venezuelan Boundary Commissioners with Regard to the Map of the Boundary, January 10, 1905]

Source & rest of article = https://www.coha.org/guyana-ve...itral-award-of-1899/

this will be interesting

@Former Member posted:

this will be interesting

Irfon Bhai, heard that the US have a military base in Essequibo. Venzies too poor to start a war.