{"id":18260,"date":"2024-04-08T12:46:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=18260"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:46:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:46:18","slug":"venezuelas-parliament-approves-law-on-essequibo-guyana-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/venezuelas-parliament-approves-law-on-essequibo-guyana-responds\/","title":{"rendered":"Venezuela&#8217;s Parliament Approves Law on Essequibo: Guyana Responds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Venezuela&#8217;s parliament recently passed a law creating a federal state in the Essequibo region of Guyana, a move that has sparked controversy and drawn condemnation from Guyana&#8217;s Vice President Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Analysts suggest that this decision by President Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s government could be a distraction tactic as the country approaches an election period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Jagdeo strongly denounced Venezuela&#8217;s actions, stating that they directly violate international law, including the United Nations Charter and the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on December 1, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Essequibo region, which comprises more than two-thirds of Guyana&#8217;s national territory, has been a longstanding point of contention between the two nations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite efforts to resolve the issue peacefully, Venezuela&#8217;s recent legislative move has heightened tensions in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guyana remains committed to pursuing diplomatic and legal avenues to address the situation, emphasizing adherence to international law and the decisions of the ICJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Sukhnandan Venezuela&#8217;s parliament recently passed a law creating a federal state in the Essequibo region of Guyana, a move that has sparked controversy and drawn condemnation from Guyana&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18262,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions\/18262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}