In an audiovisual post on her WhatsApp channel, the Vice President explained that President Nicolás Maduro had instructed her to provide serious evidence about this judge of Romanian origin, who was elected on November 9 of this year alongside other members for a position at the important UN Court .
Rodríguez showed the UN General Assembly a document with the election results, which, in addition to the judge of the European country Bogdan-Lucian Aurescu, also included candidates from Mexico, the USA, Australia, South Africa, Zambia, Egypt, Russia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The strange thing, said the senior official, is that this judge, as chancellor of his country, addressed the Venezuelan opponent and expatriate Julio Borges and recognized him as if he were the foreign minister of the Bolivarian Republic.
Truly a “very serious situation”, he explained that his country had “already recognized Juan Guaidó as the alleged president of Venezuela”.
The vice president considered this an “extremism of international illegality,” in which a criminal gang that stole the country’s assets attacked the constitutional order and attacked our people in a “terrible way.”
He questioned why Aurescu now holds a position as a judge at the International Court of Justice and “can so blatantly violate international law and the Venezuelan constitution.”
The Minister of Economy, Finance and Foreign Trade also described this act as “rude and barbaric”.
He assured that this is the reason that the people must understand and “our historical position not to leave the solution of the Essequibo territorial controversy to third parties like this one, who do not respect the Venezuelan Magna Carta and international laws.”
We have already come from the fraudulent arbitration award of 1899, in which some judges, “very similar to what could happen,” decided to steal the territory of Guyana Esequiba to give it “to someone who never belonged,” he said .
He stressed that this is the reason why Venezuela maintains its historical position of “not recognizing the mandatory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice over this territorial dispute.”
In recent days, Guyanese President Irfaan Ali expressed his willingness to meet with his Venezuelan counterpart to discuss all issues, except those related to the territorial dispute, and reiterated that the court is “the place where the Controversy must be resolved.”
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