Venezuela complies with popular mandate on Essequibo

Venezuelan state complied with the popular mandate after the consultative referendum for the defense of Esequibo held last Sunday. teleSUR

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00:00 With the popular mandate after the consultative referendum for the defense of the Esequibo,

00:06 President Nicolás Maduro in a meeting at the General Assembly of the Federal Council

00:10 of Government announced the seven decisions of the government after the electoral exercise

00:15 of December the 3rd.

00:27 Immediately, the debate in the National Assembly and the approval of the Organic Law for the

00:31 creation of the Guyana-Esequiba and the implementation of the five decisions taken by the people

00:36 of Venezuela, the five yeses in each of their parts, and I deliver to the President of the

00:42 National Assembly, Dr. Jorge Rodríguez, the Organic Law for the defense of the Guyana-Esequiba,

00:51 Organic Law to regulate the creation of the state of Guyana-Esequiba and all the decisions

00:55 of last Sunday.

01:15 We have already convoked ourselves to raise the issue, to welcome the blessed, brilliant

01:19 initiative of the National Assembly, to call for a consultative referendum on the great

01:29 issues of the trajectory and the historical legacy of the Guyana-Esequiba, on the great

01:34 issues of the present and, above all, on the great issues of the future.

01:40 We convened ourselves, we met again, each one presented his vision and on Sunday the

01:45 voice of the people spoke and the voice of the people was overwhelming.

01:52 In the five questions, the Venezuelan people showed an impressive consensus, an outstanding

02:00 consensus of the position that has united, that unites and that must unite Venezuela

02:07 on this great issue that has to do with the territorial integrity, with sovereignty and

02:13 peace with the region, something extremely important.