On Saturday, the United States stated that the venezuela’s naval ships had asked the Exonomobil unit to “threaten” the exonmonomobil unit in the maritime territame claimed by Guyana.
The statement after Guyana President Irfan Ali can be said that Venezuela’s patrol boat had entered the “unique” Guyani water around 7 local time.
Guyana “put his international partners on alert,” he said on Facebook.
The US warned against any more encroachment.
“Venezuela’s naval ships have threatened the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units of Exonomobil,” Venezuela’s naval ships have threatened the western Hemisfere Affairs US Bureau
“As a result of the results for further provoking Maduro rule, it said.
Guyana and Venezuela have seen tension over the control of the disputed Essquibo region, which is a vast area rich in natural resources.
Tension erupted in 2015 when petroleum giant Exonmobil discovered the deposits that gave Guyana, a country of only 800,000 people and a small military, with the largest raw oil reserves in the world.
Ali, whose country is closely affiliated to the United States, stated on Facebook that floating production ship “was legally operated within Guyana’s exclusive economic field.”
Venezuela’s armed forces have not commented.
Soldiers injured
On February 17, tension was given on 17 February.
This occurred on the anniversary of signing the 1966 agreement between Venezuela and Britain, which reached before the independence, which called for a resolution of a conversation for the regional dispute.
But Guyana has insisted that in 1899 the verdict had decided the disputed border in its favor.
Last December, Britain sent patrol ship HMS Trent At a port to Guyana Capital Georgetown, a gesture of “abolition and threat by the United Kingdom and threat” by Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro made a gesture.
Venezuela then began a major military exercise in the border area, including 5,600 soldiers, fighter jets and patrol boats.
Ali and Maduro met at St. Vincent and Grenadines in December and agreed to escape from any force.