Guyana welcomes Venezuela’s ‘Rejoinder’ submission in border controversy case

See below the full release from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation: 

The International Court of Justice has notified the Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana that the  Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, today, August 11, 2025, filed its Rejoinder in the case concerning the Arbitral  Award of 3 October 1899, within the time-limit fixed by the Court in its Order of 14 June 2024.  This Rejoinder is in response to Guyana’s Reply, filed in December 2024, and constitutes the final written pleading in the case. 

In accordance with its standard procedures, the Court, upon returning from its summer recess, will schedule oral  hearings on the merits of the case, to be followed by its deliberations and the issuance of its final Judgment, which  will be binding on the parties under international law. 

Guyana welcomes the filing of the Rejoinder by Venezuela, which ensures that the Court will have before it all  the factual and legal arguments of both Parties when it issues its final Judgment, rendering it fully authoritative  and incontestable.  

Guyana remains steadfastly committed to the peaceful resolution of this controversy in accordance with  international law by the ICJ – the world’s highest and most respected judicial authority