British courts' decision on Exxon affair is illegal

The president of the National Assembly's Energy and Mines Committee, Angel Rodriguez, rejected the ilegal judicial decision on behalf of British, US and Dutch courts, of freezing the Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) assets in their countries, as part of a lawsuit brought by the US Exxon Mobil, due to the nationalization of the Orinoco Belt, which took place last May.


“This process has been part of the full oil sovereignty exercise on Venezuelan territory, so any argument or lawsuit is incumbent only in national courts. Thus, the National Assembly categorically rejects the oil transnational company intentions of having influence on the international arbitration, which is a colonialist practice established on the oil opening in the nineties and which is contrary to the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”


Rodriguez indicated that this judicial ruse intends to have influence on the allocation of oil reserve areas in Venezuela, because the Bolivarian Government has established multipolar principles when finding hydrocarbon partners, varying the countries with which they associate and giving privilege to the policies which seek for the Latin American and Caribbean unity.


“This has bothered the imperialist countries at North America and Europe, which were used to the subordinate practices of the Fourth Republic administrations, which gave to these nations the monopoly in the relations of national crude exploitation.”


The lawgiver remarked the complete independence of the Venezuelan State on the allocation of future areas at the Petroleum Belt, the greatest liquid hydrocarbons reserve in the world.


He recalled that the courts which, infringing the more basic norms of civil coexistence, intend to apply colonialist practices from the XIX century, coincidently belong to the judicial systems of countries which have supported and validate invasion, destabilization and violation of human rights in Iraq, Afghanistan, Falkland Islands and several African countries, among others.


“The Venezuelan State's oil policies aim the collective well-being, so any intention of putting pressure on the Bolivarian Government will not succeed. These practices are a result of the developed nations and their companies' desperation, due to the irrational use and subsequent depletion of their energetic resources.”


Rodriguez highlighted that the developed and transnational countries have already accepted that they have consumed more than the half of the conventional oil over the planet, and that maybe the petroleum peak was reached in March 2005, previous step to the decline of conventional oil world production, so Venezuela reiterates its solidarity commitment with all the countries in Planet Earth which need the resource.