Georgetown: The International Court of Justice has formally notified the Government of Guyana that the Judgement of the Court on the question of Jurisdiction in the case Guyana v. Venezuela will be read in open court on Friday, December 18, 2020, at 3:00 pm (The Hague Time) at the Peace Palace.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, representation at the reading will be limited to two per State.
The Government of Guyana will be represented at these hearings by H.E. David Hales, Ambassador of Guyana to Belgium and non-resident Ambassador to the Netherlands and Mr Lloyd Gunraj, First Secretary, Embassy of Guyana, Brussels.
Guyana has long valued the opportunity of a judicial settlement of Venezuela’s outrageous claim to nearly three-quarters of Guyana and welcomed the decision of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 2018 (acting under the 1966 Geneva Agreement) that the International Court of Justice shall be the forum of settlement of the controversy.
This hearing is for the sole purpose of addressing the question of the Court’s jurisdiction, that is, whether the Court has the authority to resolve the dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the validity of the boundary between the two States that has been permanently fixed since 1899. Guyana says the Court has jurisdiction to rule on the validity and permanence of that boundary. Venezuela claims that it does not.
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