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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, December 4, 2024, p. 24
Caracas. The Venezuelan government yesterday described unacceptable the consolidation of US military installations in Guyana, after the administration of the president of that country, Irfaan Ali, inaugurated, together with the Southern Command, an airfield in the territory of Essequibo.
Foreign Minister Yván Gil pointed out that such actions undermine the principles of international law and constitute a threat to the peace of the region, contrary to the spirit of the 1966 Geneva Agreement.
He added that the consolidation of military facilities, including the military use of the Brigadier Gary Beaton Airfield, located in Guayana Esequiba, are inadmissible.
This is a new provocation from the Cooperative Republic of Guyanato the detriment of the spirit of peace that governed the Argyle Agreement, signed with the Bolivarian Republic on December 14 of last year, Gil added.
Caracas considered that The war agenda of the US administration has no place in our Americaand considered inconceivable the actions that show their effort to hinder the peaceful and negotiated resolution of the territorial dispute, in addition to attacking against the legitimate historical rights of our country over Guyana.
Meanwhile, the main human rights body of the United Nations Organization ordered Venezuela to refrain from destroying the minutes and other electoral material while it carries out an investigation into complaints about alleged irregularities in the re-election of President Nicolás Maduro ago. a few months.
The UN Human Rights Council announced the opening of the investigation in a letter addressed to several Latin American jurists who last October asked the agency to take action against what they described as widespread evidence of electoral fraud in violation of the political rights of millions of Venezuelans.
Paulo Abrao, one of the jurists who filed the complaint, pointed out that the decision comes at a crucial moment as the Maduro government seeks to normalize its murky electoral process in the hope that the rest of the world will move forward amid so many other pressing crises.
Meanwhile, opposition leader María Corina Machado asked Brazil to recognize Edmundo González Urrutia as elected president of Venezuela to increase the pressure about Maduro, in statements to the Brazilian Congress by videoconference.
Machado spoke during a session of the Foreign Relations Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, in which González Urrutia also participated, and stated that Maduro is isolated, weakened and without resources.
