New Venezuela claim violates int’l law, says Foreign Ministry

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced a recent decree by Venezuela purporting to annex maritime zones belonging to Guyana, calling it a “flagrant violation” of international law.

In its first official statement on the decree, which was made last month by President Nicolas Maduro, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said yesterday that any attempt by Venezuela to apply that instrument in an extra-territorial manner will be “vigorously” resisted.

It “is a flagrant violation of international law

Declaring that Venezuela’s maritime Decree of May 26th 2015 was a “baseless and shameless” bid to usurp Guyana’s territory, Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge yesterday said that a definitive solution must be found to this shadow that has hung over the country for 49 years and he signalled that the government would be moving for a juridical settlement of the border controversy.