The Dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo Region

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Brendan Plant is a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is author of Evidence before the International Court of Justice (BIICL, with Anna Riddell) and the forthcoming monograph Effectiveness and the Adjudication of International Territorial Disputes (OUP).

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The Dispute between Guyana and Venezuela over the Essequibo Region

April 11, 2018

Federica Paddeu

Brendan Plant

Introduction On 29 March 2018, Guyana filed an Application against Venezuela before the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’) concerning the two States’ long-standing dispute over the Essequibo region. This Application was filed after the UN Secretary General decided on 30 January 2018 that the dispute between Guyana and Venezuela should be submitted to the…