The Identification, Migration and Immigration Service (Saime) of Venezuela has issued, since last December 10, 4,015 identity cards in the town of Tumeremo, near Guayana Esequiba, the territory of almost 160,000 square kilometers that the country dispute with GuyanaThe Government reported this Saturday.
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In a press release, the Ministry of the Interior and Justice explained that “a total of 4,015 identity documents” were issued “during the special day” with which the Chavista Government seeks to offer Venezuelan nationality to those who reside in the area under dispute. , controlled by Georgetown.
The day, ordered by the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro“has served more than 30 sectors of the Sifontes municipality,” bordering Guayana Esequiba, “as well as six educational units, which has benefited the indigenous communities of the region,” the letter says.
Saime plans to resume this work on January 8 “to continue with the renewal of the document, as well as the identification for the first time” in this town in the Amazonian state of Bolívar, also bordering Brazil.
Through Instagram, the institution has shared several photographs and videos that show the delivery of ID cards in this mining city, where, provisionally, the power bodies created unilaterally by Ripein its attempt to annex the area under dispute to Venezuela.
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The delivery of identity documents to those who reside in the disputed area is one of the actions proposed by Venezuelaafter, on December 3, the majority approved in a unilateral referendum to annex the territory, which triggered diplomatic tension in the region.
However, on December 14, Maduro and his Guyanese counterpart, Irfaan Ali, agreed, after a meeting in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, not to threaten each other and to “avoid incidents” in the area to reduce tension, while the controversy It remains in the International Court of Justice, something that Caracas rejects.
