The Chancellor of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, rejected this Saturday the interpretation made by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the 1966 Geneva Agreement, in the case of the unilateral lawsuit of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Through his account on the Twitter social network @jaarreaza, Chancellor Arreaza stated that “The interpretation made by the Court of the 1966 Geneva Agreement ignores the spirit of equity and the fundamental search for conciliation between the parties, as it was conceived the Agreement ”.
Last Friday, December 18, through an official statement from the Chancellory of the Republic, was made known to the national and international community the position of the Venezuelan State regarding the decision of the ICJ, read in a hearing via video-conference that same day, in relation to the unilateral claim filed by the Cooperative Republic of Guyana against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela regarding the validity of the Arbitration Award of 1899.
In this sense, Venezuela repudiated the earlier ruling issued by the ICJ in the aforementioned terms, while claiming, once again, the validity of the 1966 Geneva Agreement and ratifying that it will continue to exercise its just claim against the fraud that implied the Arbitration Award of 1899 to the detriment of its territorial integrity.
Jorge Arreaza M
@jaarreaza
“Absolutely true. The Court’s interpretation of the 1966 Geneva Agreement disowns the spirit of equity and the fundamental pursuit of conciliation between the parties, as the Agreement was conceived.”
