Delcy Rodríguez on the Guyana Essequiva cause

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Venezuela cannot be obliged to a means of solution that it has not given it´s manifestation of will.  Delcy Rodriguez, Vice-President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela on defense of the Guyana Essequiva. teleSUR

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00:00 where Great Britain handed over the territory of Palestine to Israel.

00:04 And you can see how the territorial dispossession of Palestine has been progressing.

00:09 Very similar to the processes that took place in the Ezequiel territory,

00:14 in the Malvinas case, and other territories in the world,

00:17 where the United Kingdom dispossessed territory and gave it to those who did not belong.

00:23 It is a doctrine, a doctrine that continues to be in contention today,

00:28 because you realize the interest of the United States in this territory that is in controversy,

00:34 and in the sea that is pending delimitation,

00:37 you realize that the interest there are those of the United States.

00:41 And you know that in the Washington Treaty of 1897,

00:45 which was the great political consensus to dispossess Venezuela,

00:49 and which was consummated in the Fuddle and Award of 1899,

00:52 implies that this territory is given to the United States by the Crown.

00:57 They say, "We give it to you," as happens with the energy interests

01:01 that are present primarily in the territory in controversy,

01:05 as well as in the sea to be delimited.

01:08 They are U.S. interests and are primarily Western interests.

01:13 So we are really in the presence of a global war for energy resources.

01:19 There are people who consider that the International Court of Justice is the highest,

01:28 that it is before heaven there is an International Court.

01:31 For some, however, Venezuela considers that the International Court of Justice has no competence.

01:37 They say it has no jurisdictions in this field.

01:41 Even the government has said so.

01:43 So one wonders why Venezuela keeps going to the International Court.

01:48 Since the foundation of the International Court of Justice,

01:51 the position of Venezuela has been very clear as to not recognize the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court.

01:58 Only 70 countries in the world recognize the compulsory jurisdiction,

02:03 that is to say, they recognize the automatic jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice

02:08 to settle matters of international interest.

02:11 In this case, Venezuela has never recognized the compulsory jurisdiction,

02:16 and it has not recognized it precisely because we had the precedent of the fraudulent award of 1899 and this controversy.

02:23 The only way that Venezuela could attend the Court is when it manifests its will to attend the Court.

02:30 The Geneva Agreement is also very important because the Geneva Agreement assumes

02:36 that both parties must agree on the means of settlement of the dispute.

02:41 Both parties must agree on it.

02:45 So much so that every time a good officiant was to be appointed,

02:50 both Guyana and Venezuela had to express its willingness to agree.

02:55 And the last event, which was under the current Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres,

03:02 is that the personal representative that he appoints before raising the matter to the International Court

03:10 in violation of the Geneva Agreement was appointed with the consent and the manifestation of will of both parties.

03:16 Venezuela cannot be obliged to a means of solution that it has not given its manifestation of will.

03:23 So this is an issue that is a historical position in not recognizing the compulsory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice,

03:32 and that is why it is part of one of the questions of the record.

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