Bolivarian Peace Diplomacy achieves to reactivate the Geneva Agreement
Caracas, October 14, 2015 (MPPRE).- From Miraflores Presidential Palace, Nicolas Maduro, made an evaluation of the meeting with the Technical Commission of the United Nations (UN), which he described as “positive and productive� to establish new diplomatic channels to the territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana. The Head of State explained that he conducted a historical exhibition of the territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana over the Essequibo territory that was taken in 1899 by British colonialism through an arbitral null and void process and then signed in Guyana several decades later receiving independence from Britain. We have succeeded, he stressed, that after several hours of argument, the Geneva Agreement of 1966 is reactivated, the legal framework which obliges both parties to work together for satisfactory and acceptable solutions on this historic controversy. The Head of State expressed that the arrival in 1999 of the Bolivarian Revolution and Commander Hugo Chavez, allowed shaking up the bilateral relations with Georgetown, based on a greater cooperation without sacrificing the historical claim of the Essequibo as part of Diplomacy of Peace. The meeting with the special UN delegation was carried out based on the agreements reached by the General Secretary Ban Ki-moon, the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the Guyanese President David Granger, in New York, during the 70th Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
The President also announced that on November another round of talks between the Bolivarian government and Guyana are expected, with the members of the commission, headed by the Chief of the Office of the UN General Secretary, Susana Malcorra, "The UN Technical Commission began its consultation process in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, to establish a set of actions that allow the establishment of a diplomatic, political, historical route for the solution of the Guyana Essequibo controversy� expressed Maduro. The Venezuelan President said he was optimistic before the development of UN actions. "I am optimistic because I see tangible results and we have gradually achieved to dissipate the threats that we denounced in time so that our region will continue to be a region of peace and further consolidation." The Head of State stressed that positive steps have been taken so that Guyana respects the Geneva Agreement and in turn the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two countries after Venezuela appointed the new Ambassador to Guyana. He called it a "historic event" that even the General Secretary of the UN is supporting the reactivation of the Geneva Agreement and all its mechanisms. "I thank on behalf of all of Venezuela the UN General Secretary, his special attention to the issue, the prompt response to the request of July 28, the proposals of September 27 and especially the new dynamics being developed with the Executive Committee ". Maduro finished announcing that from Venezuela will continue working under the Geneva Agreement and the Bolivarian Peace Diplomacy for the prompt solution of the historic dispute between Venezuela and Guyana. / Yeniree Daza