New Venezuela claim violates int’l law, says Foreign Ministry

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A map created by Venezuela’s National Organisation for Maritime Safety purporting to show the increased Venezuelan territory following the issuing of a decree by Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro claiming sovereignty over Guyana’s territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean.
A map created by Venezuela’s National Organisation for Maritime Safety purporting to show the increased Venezuelan territory following the issuing of a decree by Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro claiming sovereignty over Guyana’s territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced a recent decree by Venezuela purporting to annex maritime zones belonging to Guyana, calling it a “flagrant violation” of international law.

In its first official statement on the decree, which was made last month by President Nicolas Maduro, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said yesterday that any attempt by Venezuela to apply that instrument in an extra-territorial manner will be “vigorously” resisted.

It “is a flagrant violation of international law and is inconsistent with the principle that all