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Security & Strategic Review - July 2018 (ISSN 1741-4202)
Guyana: ICJ looking at question of jurisdiction
On 30 January this year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres referred the territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). On 30 March, the Venezuelan foreign ministry issued a statement saying that resorting to a judicial settlement was “unacceptable”. Then, on 18 June, Venezuela announced that it would not participate in the ICJ hearings because the court “manifestly lacks jurisdiction”. Now, on 2 July, the ICJ has accepted that it first needs to resolve the question of jurisdiction before proceeding with the substance of the matter. It has given Guyana until 19 November to submit its case on this point, and Venezuela until 18 April 2019 to respond.
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