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Ali and Maduro are meeting over a long-standing dispute over the Essequibo territory, a vast border region rich in oil and minerals that represents much of Guyana’s territory but that Venezuela ...
The Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute is an ongoing territorial dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo region, also known as Esequibo or Guayana Esequiba in Spanish (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡwaˈʝana eseˈkiβa] ⓘ), [1] a 159,500 km 2 (61,600 sq mi) area west of the Essequibo River.
The long-standing territorial dispute over the Essequibo region escalated into a crisis in 2023. The region is controlled by Guyana but is claimed by Venezuela.The dispute dates back many years and the current border was established by the Paris Arbitral Award in 1899.
Guyana on Tuesday asked the World Court to issue an emergency order for Venezuela to stop a Dec. 3 referendum over its rights to a potentially oil-rich territory that has been the subject of a ...
Speaking to reporters on Monday, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Washington continues to seek “a peaceful resolution of the border dispute between Venezuela and Guyana”.
Seeking to lower tensions, Guyana and Venezuela had pledged in December not to threaten or use force against each other and to refrain from escalating the centuries-old border dispute, following a ...
The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela landed in St. Vincent and the Grenadines for a tense meeting Thursday as regional nations sought to defuse a long-standing territorial dispute that has ...
The disclosure of oil off the coast has started a discussion among Guyana and Venezuela over the border itself with both claiming the area. [2] The dispute was taken to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2018. [8] Venezuela did not participate in the hearing that was held on 30 June 2020, arguing that the ICJ did not have jurisdiction. [9]