The president in charge of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguezthis Wednesday ordered the Foreign Ministry and the Attorney General’s Office to activate the corresponding legal and diplomatic procedures to repatriate the gold bars kept in the Bank of England.
During a Council of Ministers broadcast on state television, the president maintained that the formal claim responds to the commitments signed during the political dialogue tables between the ruling party and opposition delegates, in which it was agreed to create a joint commission to request the release of the nation’s reserves.
“I am not going to stop demanding the return of our gold from the Bank of England. Enough of the excuses. There was an agreement. Enough of the theft of our resources, of the theft of our gold,” Rodríguez said before the Executive Cabinet.
The international reservesestimated at approximately 2,000 million dollars, remain frozen in the British institution since 2019 after the breakdown of institutional recognition as a result of ignorance of the 2018 presidential elections.
The interim government plans to allocate these funds to infrastructure reconstruction programs, public services and priority interventions in the areas affected by the double seismic event of June 24.
The Executive’s demand occurs in a scenario of selective relief of sanctions by the US administration, although regulatory obstacles and lawsuits persist in British jurisdictions over the legitimate control of the Republic’s assets.
The mandate given to the diplomatic bodies seeks to expedite the actions of the mixed commission formed together with the opposition delegation headed by Dinorah Figuera.
The Venezuelan authorities will insist before the Crown and the courts of the United Kingdom to make the transfer of the funds to the accounts of the United Kingdom viable. Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV).
