Venezuela Rejects World Court Authority in Dispute Over Oil-Rich Esequibo
Venezuela told the International Court of Justice it does not accept the court's jurisdiction in a long-running border dispute with Guyana centered on the Esequibo region, a 160,000-square-km area onshore and offshore where significant oil and gas discoveries have been made. Guyana has asked the court to uphold an 1899 arbitration that assigns the …