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Venezuela’s Min­is­ter of De­fence Vladimir Padri­no López has cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­ject­ed Guyanese Pres­i­dent Ir­fan Ali’s state­ment, ac­cus­ing the Span­ish-speak­ing coun­try of en­ter­ing Guyana’s ter­ri­to­r­i­al wa­ters with a navy ves­sel on Sat­ur­day.

Ac­cord­ing to López, a four star gen­er­al, the coun­try was ready to re­spond to any threat.

He said Sat­ur­day’s con­tro­ver­sial mil­i­tary op­er­a­tion was aimed at safe­guard­ing the in­tegri­ty of Venezuela’s mar­itime and land ter­ri­to­ries.