from state diplomacy to ideological recklessness

Territorial disputes begin when “one country formalizes a claim to part or all of another country’s territory”. sovereign country; a State questions the location of an existing border and requests a review of the border, or a State challenges another State’s right to exercise sovereignty over that territory.

Reading Argentinian essays, Mariana Alejandra Altieri, Strategy and Geopolitics expert, we confirm that, «currently there are 71 unresolved territorial disputes, involving 79 countries. This means that 41% of countries in the world are involved in territorial disputes with other countries, which can give rise to bilateral, regional and international tensions. The aforementioned analyst also states that, “for a territorial dispute to continue, one of two conditions must be met: the countries involved have not attempted to resolve the dispute or efforts to find a solution have failed.”

So we have to go in Europe Sovereignty rivalries involving Latin American countries remain unresolved. One of the territorial space disputes is a dispute Republic of Argentinawhich his representatives insist on demanding from great Britain from Britain And Northern Irelandits sovereignty ends Falkland Islands, Georgia And Southern Sandwich and the surrounding maritime space. Another old complaint is the complaint that involves Kingdom of Spain with United Kingdom And Northern Ireland for him Gibraltar rock. Decades have passed in this confrontation, accumulating a lot of time in a prolonged confrontation that seems fluctuating and endless.

Another struggle that is no less prolonged United Kingdom have as an opponent Venezuela. This is about the seizure of a part of our territory known as Essequibo. As we recall, in the schools we attended as children, we Venezuelans began to outline the boundaries that delimited the scope of our territory. We know, looking at our maps hanging on the walls of school institutions, that our territory is intact Venezuela This is defined very clearly in article 10 of the 1999 Magna Carta.

This tool updates and correctly implements provisions in the same sense in different constitutions Venezuela since 1830. From the moment we learned to read and write, we began to repeat over and over again that “the territories and other geographical spaces of the Republic are the territories corresponding to Captain General of Venezuela before the political transformation that began on April 19, 1810, with the resulting modifications of the treaties and arbitration awards not undermined by annulment.

The responsibility for defending our territorial space is fully borne by democratic governments. Since the attack on us Esquiba Guayana through the irregular Gift from Paris in 1899, as a result of undue pressure from United KingdomThe Venezuelan state, represented patriotically and decently, could get the dissenting parties to sign the agreement Geneva Agreement of 1966as a strategic and convenient way to Venezuela to overcome the “territorial entrenchment” arising from the behavior of the spokespersons of the Guyanese authorities.

Unfortunately, this strategy is reflected in all scenarios involving plenipotentiary ambassadors acting on behalf of the country’s legitimate authorities. Republic of Venezuelastarted ranting after the president Hugo Chavez Frias He put state diplomacy aside and practiced “buddy diplomacy,” which was ideologicalized and subordinated to his volatile relationship with the Castro regime. They were captured in the media and in videos that survive on social networks, both of which are self-deprecating versions Chavez as a replacement Nicolas Maduro. Statement from Chavez and the chancellor Roy Chadertonwhere they “exonerated themselves from accusation Guyana, linking it to North American imperialism. Now, in a reverse and irresponsible manner, obscene disqualifications are taking over, including absurd threats against the current president. Guyanafired in the second round of Maduro’s disastrous defense of Venezuela’s territory, against David Granger’s reign.

This vengeful behavior Ripe used as an excuse to Government of Guyana to abandon schemes based on talks and peaceful settlement mechanisms that have lasted for more than five decades, to pursue different tactics that begin by asking UN Secretary General to proceed with bringing the case to the International Court of Justice based on the possibility of implementing the framework in accordance with the possibilities provided for in the Geneva Agreement itself to resolve the situation.

The zig-zag of Chavomadurista diplomacy is fatal to our country’s interests. Let’s remember that Guyana from the presidency Cheddi Jaganbecome a submissive and unconditional part Cuba. Cubana de Aviación Flight, which transported Cuban troops to Angolathey stopped at Guyana. There is a video about Hugo Chavez state the reason Venezuela abandon the claim Essequibo. He spoke of “brotherly nations and their struggle against internationalism”, supporting cunning Fidel Castroaims to support this strategic base Cubain the South America.

After this series of mistakes, or rather acts of betrayal of the country’s interests, Ripe created an absurd and ridiculous referendum, in which he intended to ask the Venezuelan people obvious things like “whether they recognize that Liberator Simón Bolívar’s horse is white.” Of course Essequibo is made in Venezuela! No need to ask.

Faced with such nonsense, I can’t help but think back to the historic decision made by the president Carlos Andres Perez on 21 June 1974, the date on which the Act establishing the Advisory Commission on Foreign Relations (CARE) was announced in Official Gazette number 30,430, a body designed to “provide cooperation to the National Government in all branches of international policy”. Former Republican presidents, former chancellors, plus two Senate House representatives and two parliamentarians from the defunct Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress met at CARE. Namely carrying out foreign policy and state diplomacy, with greatness and a true spirit of nationalism. Not like it is happening now, with the audacity of stupid leaders who don’t know how to defend what is historically ours.

Elena Eland

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