Venezuela’s preliminary objections to Guyana’s application to the World Court for the validation of the 1899 arbitral award setting the boundaries between the two countries were on Friday dismissed as incoherent, legally misconceived and factually baseless.
This was the conclusion of one of Guyana’s lawyers, Philippe Sands KC, when he and others on this country’s panel rejected Caracas’s arguments delivered the day before at the International Court of Justice (World Court) in the Hague, the Nether-lands.
Sands likened Venezuela’s objections to a football game.