Before the ink was dry on the Geneva Agreement in 1966, Venezuela invaded Guyana’s half of the island of Ankoko. Since then, its aggressive intent against Guyana has manifested itself in many ways. Over the past five years, Venezuela’s aggression against Guyana has expanded, encompassing land and sea. That new aggression consists of both a military build-up in equipment and personnel in border regions and threatening postures and incursions in relation to our territory and waters. Venezuela claims almost the entire area of Guyana’s maritime space in the Atlantic Ocean. It extends offshore from the mouth of the Essequibo River and projects far into the Atlantic north and west of a 70-degree azimuth line from the Essequibo coast. Venezuela’s claim encompasses almost the whole of Guyana’s EEZ including the Stabroek Block. Venezuela has a “Military Defence Zone” to administer the maritime area that it claims.