Delcy Rodriguez from Venezuela will go to The Hague to answer the case | News about the US-Venezuela conflict

Rodriguez’s first visit to the Caribbean since the kidnapping of Maduro, will go to the ICJ on the issue of land in Guyana.

The acting president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, will go to The Hague to negotiate with Guyana on the issue of land at the International Court of Human Rights (ICJ).

The trip to the Netherlands announced on Saturday will be his first time away from home since then take over President Nicolas Maduro and the US military in January.

“It has fallen to me to walk in the coming hours to defend our country,” Rodriguez said in a televised address.

The United Nations High Court in The Hague has already heard disputes in the Venezuela-Guyana case, which concerns the centuries-old dispute over the oil-rich Essequibo region.

Venezuela claims that territory, which is currently controlled by Guyana. The area on the eastern border of Venezuela is two-thirds of the territory of Guyana.

ExxonMobil’s discovery of the Essequibo offshore oil field gave Guyana – with a population of less than one million people – the largest oil field in the world.

The case examines whether the current border, established between the two countries in 1899 under British colonial rule should remain valid, or whether the border should be taken according to a later document from 1966 that was signed before Guyana gained its independence.

Rodriguez, who was Maduro’s vice president when he was captured and extradited to the United States to stand trial, had been under US sanctions. They were promoted when he became President. Despite this, officials who go to the ICJ are often granted special immunity.

Rodriguez, a supporter of Maduro’s Chavismo movement, continued to pursue a list of US demands, including a freeze on Cuban oil, the opening of Venezuela’s oil industry to foreign companies and the release of political prisoners.

At the same time, he tried to get along well with the Venezuelans powerful internal security and military equipment.

Although he said he was invited to the US by the Trump administration, he has not yet made the trip. But he visited the nearby Caribbean islands of Grenada and Barbados.