Guyana/Venezuela border court hearing set for March 2020

(Guyana Chronicle) The International Court of Justice will carry out the oral hearings in the case concerning the Guyana/Venezuela border issue from March 23 to 27, 2020 at the Hague.

On Tuesday, the Government of Guyana through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it welcomes the notification by the ICJ on the issure, formally known as the case concerning the Arbitral Award of 1899 (Guyana v Venezuela).

The hearing will determine whether the Court Court has jurisdiction over the case filed by Guyana on March 29, 2018.

Guyana seeks to obtain from the Court a final and binding judgment that the 1899 Arbitral Award, which established the location of the land boundary between then-British Guiana and Venezuela, remains valid and binding, and that Guyana’s Essequibo region belongs to Guyana, and not Venezuela.

Guyana brought its case to the Court following the decision by the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in January 2018, that the controversy between Guyana and Venezuela should be decided by the International Court of Justice.

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Source: CARICOM TODAY