Venezuela disbanded Guyana's arguments before the ICJ and ratifies the Geneva Agreement

Published at: 06/05/2026 12:23 PM

The Minister of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs, Yván Gil, ratified this Wednesday that the Geneva Agreement of 1966 is the only valid instrument to settle the territorial dispute surrounding Guiana Essequiba, and reported that the Venezuelan delegation disbanded before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the arguments of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana regarding the fraudulent award arbitral tribunal of Paris of 1899.

From The Hague, Netherlands, during a hearing before the international court, Foreign Minister Gil remarked that the Venezuelan representation confirmed that it does not recognize the jurisdiction of the ICJ in this matter, and praised the interventions of agent Samuel Moncada and the legal team of the Bolivarian nation.

“It has been a historic day for the Homeland, after having seen the world and seeing Venezuela in this oral session, the interventions and the work of years of a first-level legal team, both national and our agent (Moncada), with our team of the Attorney General's Office, with our teams of lawyers,” he said, stressing that the country has “the best legal team constituted to defend its interests.”

In statements to the media, he noted that the Venezuelan delegation presented “exceptional legal documentation, which has precisely dismantled the argument of the Cooperative Republic of Guiana, the series of elements that we could classify as false, manipulated, through our presentation, the presentation of our lawyers who make it clear to the international community and the Court how the arbitral award of 1899 was a fraudulent award.”

Gil stressed that Venezuela made it clear to the national community, the Cooperative Republic of Guiana and the ICJ that, through the Geneva Agreement, the National Government “is willing to work directly, face to face, as required by this agreement with the Cooperative Republic of Guiana to definitively settle this controversy, which is now 126 years old.”

Finally, he urged the Venezuelan people to listen to the presentations of the legal and political team. “We invite the international community to evaluate each and every one of the detailed, precise arguments. It has really been a diaphanous explanation, a pedagogical application, especially for Venezuelan youth, who understand how the Bolivarian Government, led by the president in charge Delcy Rodríguez, has designed a legal strategy, a political strategy, a diplomatic strategy that will allow us to recover the rights of Venezuela that have been tried or that are being tried to dispossess through that action that began in 1899.”

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