00:00 The debate over the Venezuelan-Guyana border controversy rages on and one day
00:05 after Vice President of Guyana Barat Chagdo issued a warning to Venezuela's
00:09 President Nicolas Maduro to leave the SEQBO region alone, Venezuela's MP
00:14 Jacobo Torres and his countrymen are hoping for a makeable and harmonious
00:19 resolution to this border dispute. We will not go to war. We will not make them
00:27 we will not fall into a provocation. We are people of dialogue. We are peaceful
00:36 people and we are going to defend all the way, all the way to the end. Torres
00:44 said Guyana and other countries were attempting to demonize Venezuela and said
00:48 contrary to claims that Venezuela had no historical claim to the word SEQBO, he
00:54 said the area was named after Spanish liberator Juan Ezequiel and it was under
00:58 Venezuela's territory since 1799. History favors us, favors our position because
01:07 when you are the owner of your house you have the deeds of your house and you can
01:13 demonstrate that this is your house. Since 1777 we have the documentation. He
01:22 said the 1899 arbitral award that was signed off by the USA and the United
01:26 Kingdom in which the disputed territory was then part of British Guyana became
01:31 null and void after the 1966 Geneva settlement and said in essence Guyana
01:36 never had a claim to the SEQBO region. There was not. Guyana did not exist as a
01:45 nation then. It was British territory. It was British Guyana right next to Dutch
01:56 Guyana which became Suriname. That was in February 1966 in the last century. A few
02:07 months thereafter the United Kingdom granted independence to Guyana
02:14 Torres insists that the latest attack on Venezuela is a systematic one
02:19 engineered by the US who were trying to protect their interests in the area. So
02:24 the only one left was Guyana. That's why all the contradictions began to worsen
02:35 and from there on a systematic plan of aggression against Venezuela began.
02:43 Financed by Exxon Mobil which are the power behind the throne. The big oil
02:55 international companies. Venezuela's ambassador to Trinidad Alvaro Sanchez
03:00 Cordero said that CARICOM seems to be willing to help in defusing the
03:04 situation. I think CARICOM generally has the willingness to assist in trying to
03:11 find a peaceful solution to this issue. Mark Besant TV6 News
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