While Guyana ultimately wants a juridical settlement of the decades-old border controversy with Vene-zuela, Georgetown also believes that a legal opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Arbitral Tribunal Award of 1899 would be beneficial.
“The thing about an opinion in those circumstances is that it is only advisory. (However), the value of it to Guyana is the world will see that legal exercise, having being conducted on Venezuela’s claim, (the claim) is not supported,” Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge said yesterday. He was at the time briefing reporters on the border controversy with Venezuela as government awaits proposals from the United Nations (UN) on a resolution to the matter.
Guyana is insisting that the controversy be settled juridically, while Venezuela wants the Good Offi-cer process to continue. President David Granger and other government spokesmen have noted that the