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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Stephanie van den Berg and Deisy Buitrago

World Court says it can rule on Guyana-Venezuela border dispute

FILE PHOTO: View of the gates of the abandoned Wales Sugar Estate, in Wales, Guyana, May 21, 2022. REUTERS/Gram Slattery/File Photo

Judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Thursday ruled they had jurisdiction over a long-running border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela, which could determine which country has rights to territory rich in oil and gas.

Guyana in 2018 asked the ICJ, also known as the World Court, to confirm that the border was laid down in an 1899 arbitration between Venezuela and the then-colony of British Guiana.

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