Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday ahead of a final hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on a decades-long dispute between her country and Guyana over the resource-rich Essequibo region, according to a US daily. The Washington Times reported that after landing at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, Rodr\u00edguez said Venezuela had “demonstrated at every historical stage what our territory has meant since we were born as a Republic.”<\/p>\n
Court hearing<\/p>\n
The final court hearing, with Rodr\u00edguez’s appearance, will take place Monday. The UN court in The Hague is reviewing competing claims to the nearly 62,000-square-mile territory, which is rich in gold, diamonds, timber and offshore oil reserves.<\/p>\n
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Competing claims<\/p>\n
Guyana asked the ICJ in 2018 to uphold an 1899 arbitration ruling that set the border, while Venezuela argues that a 1966 Geneva agreement invalidated that decision. Venezuela has also maintained that its participation in the hearings does not mean it recognizes the ICJ’s jurisdiction. A final ruling from the court is expected in the coming months.<\/p>\n
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Regional context<\/p>\n
The dispute has intensified following the discovery of significant offshore oil reserves in the region. The ICJ’s final ruling will have major implications for both countries’ territorial and economic claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodr\u00edguez arrived in the Netherlands on Sunday ahead of a final hearing at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8500,8501,7463,8401,2923,6,7462,8693],"class_list":{"0":"post-10392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-netherlands","8":"tag-delcy-rodriguez","9":"tag-essequibo-region","10":"tag-guyana","11":"tag-icj","12":"tag-international-court-of-justice","13":"tag-netherlands","14":"tag-venezuela","15":"tag-washington-times"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}