Guyana Where and What 2023-2024 for website_compressed

18 December 2020 that it had
jurisdiction to hear the case on
the merits of Guyana’s
application concerning the
validity of the Arbitral Award of
1899 and the related question of
the definitive settlement of the
land boundary between the two
countries.
Venezuela
condemned that decision as
‘biased and irregular’. However,
it is binding on both Parties
under international law.
On 8 March 2022, Guyana filed
its Memorial on the merits of its
case against Venezuela. On 7
June 2022, Venezuela filed
preliminary objections to the
admissibility of Guyana’s claims,
urging the Court to exercise its
discretion to refuse to rule on
them.
In accordance with the rules of
the Court, the proceedings on
the merits were suspended until
the determination by the Court
of the matter of Venezuela’s
preliminary objections. Guyana
submitted its response to the
preliminary objections on 15
July 2022.
The Court heard oral pleadings
from both Guyana and
Venezuela on Venezuela’s
objections over the period 17 to
22 November 2022.
On 6 April 2023, the Court gave
its judgement on Venezuela’s
objections, which is final,
without appeal and binding on
the Parties, as follows:
(1) Unanimously,
Finds that the preliminary
objection
raised by the Bolivarian
Republic of
Venezuela is admissible.
(2) By fourteen votes to one,
Rejects the preliminary
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