President Nicolás Maduro confirmed the statement of the President of the National Assembly (Parliament), Jorge Rodríguez, that the people will be called for consultations before the end of 2023 and commented on the battles to be waged in the diplomatic and political order in respect of the Geneva Agreement from 1966.
He also mentioned progress in talks to find a satisfactory solution for the parties (Venezuela and Guyana) in negotiations that must be “friendly and peaceful.”
“We will hold a referendum on our Essequibo in Venezuela this year,” he stressed.
On September 21, Parliament unanimously agreed in an emergency motion to call a consultative referendum to allow the sovereign to decide on his inalienable rights by direct and secret vote.
Regarding this referendum, the President of the National Assembly, Jorge Rodríguez, announced that “we hope that it will be before the end of this year,” affirmed the legislator in a meeting with the political and military high command.
On the Day of Indigenous Resistance and Decolonization, thousands of Venezuelans, represented by the vast majority of indigenous and Afro-colonial communities, marched through the streets of Caracas to commemorate the historic date of October 12th.
At the end of the mobilization in front of Parliament, participants presented a proclamation to the first vice president of the legislature, Pedro Infante, to demonstrate their defense of Essequibo, the country and the head of state.
Amid Israel’s merciless attacks on the Gaza Strip, the government reiterated its commitment to solidarity with the Palestinian people and called for compliance with resolutions adopted by the United Nations.
Official statements and statements by senior officials via social media and speeches denounced the Israeli army’s atrocities against civilians, including the use of banned weapons, and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities.
Maduro pointed out that 21st century Bolivarism “cannot remain silent in the face of injustice,” emphasizing that “we have never been silent and will not be silent, no one will silence us.”
We cannot remain silent, he affirmed, emphasizing that Venezuela has been at the forefront of solidarity in the face of every massacre of the Palestinian people since “our beloved commander Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)”.
Foreign Minister Iván Gil also spoke via video conference with his Palestinian Authority counterpart, Riyad al-Maliki, who informed him of the “serious situation” in the Gaza Strip in light of the genocide committed by Israel.
A relevant event this week was also the resolution adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) against the imposition of unilateral coercive measures.
Venezuela’s permanent representative to the multilateral organization in Geneva, Héctor Constant, viewed this result as “a new victory for international law.”
“No State shall resort to or encourage any measure of any kind (…) to compel another State to obtain from it subordination in the exercise of its sovereign rights or to obtain from it any advantages of any kind…” he said specified. The diplomat referring to the approved document.
The Venezuelan Foreign Ministry specified that the adopted resolution emphasized that unilateral coercive measures “contradict international law, international humanitarian law, the UN Charter and the norms and principles governing peaceful relations between States.”
In the document, the Human Rights Council expressed deep dismay at the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the right to life, the right to health and medical care, the right not to go hungry, to an adequate standard of living and to food. Education and work.
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