Assertion from the Caribbean Group on the provisional measures ordered by the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (ICJ) regarding Arbitral Award of three October 1899 (Guyana v Venezuela):
The Worldwide Court docket of Justice has right this moment, 1 December 2023, ordered Venezuela to not take any motion to problem, disrupt or intrude with Guyana’s longstanding management and administration of the Essequibo Area, which constitutes greater than two-thirds of Guyana’s land territory, till the Court docket has issued its remaining Judgment on which State enjoys sovereignty over that territory.
Particularly, the Court docket ordered that “the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela shall chorus from taking any motion which might modify the scenario that presently prevails within the territory in dispute, whereby the Cooperative Republic of Guyana administers and workout routines management over that space.”
The Order was adopted unanimously by all of the sitting Judges.
The Court docket’s Order was issued in response to Guyana’s Request for Provisional Measures, which was prompted by a nationwide referendum that Venezuela has scheduled for Sunday, December 3, wherein the individuals are requested to approve Venezuela’s annexation of the Essequibo Area and incorporation of it into the Venezuelan State. The Court docket’s Order prohibits Venezuela from taking such a measure, or some other measure that might change the established order within the territory, whatever the final result of the Venezuelan referendum on Sunday.
The Court docket’s Order reinforces the basic precept of worldwide regulation, enshrined within the UN and OAS Charters, that each State has the obligation to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of others. The Order makes clear that holding a nationwide referendum doesn’t exempt a State from its obligation to adjust to this obligation.
Venezuela can not by a referendum, or in any other case, violate worldwide regulation and disrespect the Order of the world’s highest Court docket.
CARICOM expects Venezuela to uphold the ICJ’s Order of 1 December 2023. It additionally insists that Venezuela complies with worldwide regulation in all respects, and the Constitution of the United Nations, and, on this connection, calls on it to take no actions In violation of them.
CARICOM reminds that the Venezuela-Guyana controversy is correctly earlier than the ICJ by the choice of the Secretary-Common of the United Nations for ‘remaining settlement’, pursuant to the provisions of the 1966 Geneva Settlement to which each Venezuela and Guyana are certain. CARICOM calls for that Venezuela pursue its claims throughout the regulation and the authorized course of.
Additional, CARICOM calls for that the Caribbean be revered as a Zone of Peace and that nothing needs to be finished to disrupt the tranquillity of the Area, which is important to the financial prosperity and social well-being of all nations of CARICOM and Latin America.
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