Georgetown: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Friday announced that the public hearings of the Guyana vs Venezuela border case will be held on Tuesday, June 30, 2020 via videoconference at 14:00hrs.
The hearings will take place in the Great Hall of Justice using videoconference technology and with the physical presence of some of the Members of the Court as the court operates under the current COVID-19 pandemic.
The court has a role to settle legal disputes submitted by countries and to give advisory opinions on legal questions. A ruling from the court is without appeal.
Venezuela has claimed, in a letter to the Court, that the Secretary-General of the United Nations exceeded his authority under the Geneva Agreement, and that the Court, therefore, lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate Guyana’s lawsuit.
Guyana is seeking to obtain a final and binding judgment from the Court 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.
Venezuela has previously indicated that it will not participate in the proceedings.
The ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. It was established by the UN Charter in June 1945 and began its activities in April 1946. The court has 15 Judges elected for a nine-year term by the General Assembly and the Security Council of the UN.
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