Venezuela's Na­tion­al As­sem­bly yes­ter­day ap­proved the pack­age of mea­sures re­gard­ing the Es­se­qui­bo re­gion an­nounced by Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro which in­clud­ed a new map of Venezuela en­com­pass­ing the Es­se­qui­bo - and the cre­ation of di­vi­sions to grant li­cences for oil, gas and min­ing ex­ploita­tion.

The As­sem­bly met to de­bate the mea­sures yes­ter­day. Venezue­lan of­fi­cials said they were like­ly to be ap­proved since the gov­ern­ment had the ma­jor­i­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to Maduro's so­cial me­dia ac­count, on Tues­day he or­dered that a set of ac­tions be tak­en by his Gov­ern­ment to im­ple­ment the re­sult of last Sun­day's ref­er­en­dum where vot­ers heav­i­ly backed the coun­try's ter­ri­to­r­i­al claim of the Es­se­qui­bo.

The mea­sures will be ex­e­cut­ed for the claim of "our fun­da­men­tal rights" to work in de­fence of the na­tion­al ter­ri­to­ry, it was stat­ed.

The mea­sures are:

*Im­me­di­ate­ly pub­lish and take to all schools, lyceums, mu­nic­i­pal coun­cils, pub­lic es­tab­lish­ments, uni­ver­si­ties and in all homes, "the new Map of Venezuela with our Guyana Es­e­qui­ba".

*Im­me­di­ate cre­ation of the di­vi­sion "PDVAS Es­e­qui­bo" and CVG Es­e­qui­bo" to grant li­cences for oil, gas and mine ex­ploita­tion.

"Draft­ing of spe­cial law to es­tab­lish a rule pro­hibit­ing con­tract­ing with com­pa­nies op­er­at­ing in the "Uni­lat­er­al con­ces­sions giv­en by Guyana in the Sea de­lim­i­ta­tion"

*Cre­ation of a new High Com­mis­sion for the De­fence of Guyana Es­e­qui­ba, co­or­di­nat­ed by Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­driguez

*Ac­ti­va­tion of a hu­man/so­cial care plan for Es­se­qui­bo's en­tire pop­u­la­tion that in­cludes cen­sus and iden­ti­ty cards and the open­ing of an of­fice for the de­liv­ery of ID cards to the pop­u­la­tion-based in Tumer­e­mo.

*Cre­ate the Zone of In­te­gral De­fence of the Es­se­qui­ba with 3 ar­eas and 28 sec­tors of in­te­gral de­vel­op­ment in Tumer­e­mo.

*Des­ig­nate Alex­is Ro­dríguez Ca­bel­lo as sole au­thor­i­ty of the Es­e­qui­ba with po­lit­i­cal and ad­min­is­tra­tive head­quar­ters in Tumer­e­mo.

* Im­me­di­ate­ly ac­ti­vate de­bate in the Na­tion­al As­sem­bly for ap­proval of law for the de­fence of the Es­e­qui­ba where en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion ar­eas and new pro­tect­ed parks are de­creed cen­tres of tourism and bio­di­ver­si­ty.

Maduro stat­ed his Gov­ern­ment will deep­en "the ties of di­a­logue to lis­ten to all of Venezuela through the High Com­mis­sion for the De­fence of the Es­se­qui­bo. That com­pris­es the Fed­er­al Gov­ern­ment Coun­cil, State Coun­cil, Na­tion­al De­fence Coun­cil, and po­lit­i­cal and re­li­gious sec­tors.

Al­so, yes­ter­day Venezuela's At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Tarek William Saab an­nounced the launch of pre­lim­i­nary in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to an al­leged bribery scheme by Exxon­Mo­bil with op­po­si­tion politi­cians. He al­leged Guyana was be­ing "used" by the US com­pa­ny to seize nat­ur­al re­sources be­long­ing to Venezuela. He claimed they found a plot aimed at boy­cotting the Es­se­qui­bo ref­er­en­dum.