HAGUE, CMC – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Friday set November 14 as the date for holding public hearings into Guyana’s request to block a number of questions in Venezuela’s December 3 referendum on the border controversy.
“The hearings will be devoted to the request for the indication of provisional measures submitted by Guyana on October 30, 2023,” the ICJ said in a statement.
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It said that Guyana, in its request, had said that the Venezuelan government, through its National Electoral Council, has published a list of five questions that it intends to put before citizens in a “Consultative Referendum” next month.
“According to the applicant, the purpose of this referendum is to ‘obtain responses that would support Venezuela’s decision to abandon [the current proceedings before the court], and to resort instead to unilateral measures to ‘resolve’ the controversy with Guyana by formally annexing and integrating into Venezuela all of the territory at issue in these proceedings, which comprises more than two-thirds of Guyana’,” the ICJ said.
The court said the hearings will take place at the Peace Palace in The Hague.
