Last Updated on Thursday, 27 March 2025, 13:39 by Writer
United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday warned Venezuela that if it attacks American supermajor’s oil assets in Guyana’s Stabroek Block or takes military action against Guyana in pressing its border claim to the Essequibo Region it would face tough consequences.
“It would be a very bad day for the Venezuelan regime if they were to attack Guyana or attack ExxonMobil or anything like it,” he told a news conference shared with Guyana’s President, Irfaan Ali.
Without getting into details, Mr Rubio said “it would not end well for them. I’m not going to get into details of what we’ll do.”
The Secretary of State noted that a US Navy vessel was currently in Guyana’s waters, “demonstrating our ability” He added that the US has a “big navy” and “we have commitments that exist today with Guyana.”
“We want to build on those, expand on those and we’ll leave it for the appropriate time, but suffice it to say that if, if that regime were to do something, such as that it would be a very bad move, it would be a big mistake for them,” he said.
Venezuela on March 1, 2025, sent a military offshore patrol vessel into Guyana’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and communicated with a number of ExxonMobil-operated floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels and other vessels, telling them that they were in Venezuelan waters that are disputed and yet to be delimited with Guyana.
The validity of the 1899 Arbitral Tribunal Land Boundary Award is currently before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a case brought by Guyana after growing weary of the United Nations Secretary General’s mediation process that lasted 50 years without any resolution.
The US has over the past 10 years unequivocally stated it recognises the 1899 land boundary award.
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