The Government of Venezuela rejected the statements made by the President of Guyana, Irfaan Ali, from the US Embassy, assuring him that he will eventually have to negotiate with Venezuela on the dispute over Esequibo, a territory that Venezuela claims as its own.

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Through a message on his Telegram channel, the Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil revealed that Ali made the statements from that “space of submission and dependence” which constitutes the US legation in the Guyanese capital, Georgetown, and accused him of standing there not as head of state, but “as a political subordinate, accountable to his true masters.”

Gil He asserted that the Guyanese president lied “shamelessly about a subject he knows well, since he is the true head of the illegal gold and mineral extraction mafia, which has caused accelerated destruction of the environment and life itself in a territory that does not belong to him,” he said in reference to Guyana Esequiba.

He also stated that Ali leads “a scheme of plundering oil in a sea pending delimitation, whose exploitation is completely illegal and illegitimate according to International Law,” the statement added.

The Venezuelan FM recalled on the Venezuela’s owning of the Esequibo territory and that only the Geneva Agreement (1966) constitutes the valid and recognized mechanism to resolve the dispute between both nations because there is “no judicial shortcut or media maneuver that strips Venezuela of its historical rights.”

Guyana lacks the moral authority to speak of legality or democracy. What it exhibits as ‘cooperation’ with the U.S. is nothing more than a servile surrender of sovereignty, seeking to turn its country into a base of operations against Venezuela and against the stability of the region, it warned.

The Foreign Ministry urged the Guyanese president to remain silent when referring to Venezuela and assured him that his administration, marked by subservience, theft, and provocation, has no legitimacy to point fingers at anyone.

On the other hand, he assured him that “sooner or later he will have to sit down with Venezuela to resolve what it refuses to admit: that the Esequibo is Venezuelan, and that the exploitation of resources in undelimited maritime areas is an act of modern piracy that will not be tolerated.”

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