This intensified dramatically in the 1960s when Venezuela formally contested the validity of the 1899 ... Guyana’s case had to be marshalled through several mechanisms, the Geneva agreement ...

“The territorial question has a lot to do with our petroleum exploration, the lineation of our maritime frontiers and seeking the court’s reassertion of the agreement of 1899 which clearly ...

Rubio signed an agreement ... a bill to declare Guyana's Essequibo as Venezuela's 24th state, a move rejected internationally. Guyana insists the border was finalized by an 1899 arbitration ...

If Essequibo is taken over by Venezuela, Guyana ... for the 1899 Arbitral Award. The US remained consistent in its support since 2018. Fifty-nine years after the Geneva Agreement in 1966, the ...