Guyana yesterday said that it is thoroughly convinced that the Arbitral Award of 1899 is valid and that the final ruling of the International Court of Justice will provide a peaceful settlement of the border controversy with Venezuela.
This sentiment was stated in a release yesterday from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in commemoration of the 125th Anniversary of the Arbitral Award which settled the land boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela.
This “Full, Perfect and Final Settlement”, the release noted, or Una Solucion Completa, Perfecta y Definitiva – is the state of Guyana’s border with Venezuela: Full – Perfect – Final. “They are words of wholeness, of precision, of eternity. They are words of portrayal that have branded Guyana’s western boundary with Venezuela from Punta Playa to the Summit of Mount Roraima.”