00:00Welcome back. Venezuela rejected the statements made by Irfan Ali, President of the Corporate Republic of Guyana, regarding a dispute
00:07over the Guayana Ezequiva territory.
00:09The communique from the Bolivarian government states,
00:12The claims made by the Guyanese leader constitute a distortion of historical and legal truth.
00:17The debate over the validity or invalidity of the 1899 Paris Arbitral War was set aside by the parties when
00:23they signed the 1966 Geneva Agreement between Venezuela,
00:26the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the then British Guyana, now the Corporate Republic of Guyana.
00:34It also states, Venezuela has made it absolutely clear, and has recently reiterated this before the International Court of Justice
00:43itself,
00:44that it does not and will not recognize the jurisdiction of that court to settle this territorial dispute.
00:49Finally, it asserts, Venezuela has never given its consent to the aforementioned court to hear the claim filed unilaterally by
00:55Guyana
00:55in open violation of the spirit and purpose of the Geneva Agreement,
00:59the only valid and binding legal instrument for resolving the border dispute
01:03through a practical, satisfactory, and mutually acceptable solution.
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