{"id":22093,"date":"2024-09-03T19:18:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=22093"},"modified":"2024-09-03T19:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:18:22","slug":"attorney-general-opposes-enforcement-of-conocophillips-arbitral-award-in-guyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/attorney-general-opposes-enforcement-of-conocophillips-arbitral-award-in-guyana\/","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Opposes Enforcement of ConocoPhillips\u2019 Arbitral Award in Guyana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>Attorney General Anil Nandlall has expressed strong opposition to the enforcement of an arbitral award in favor of U.S. firm ConocoPhillips, citing the ongoing border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The case involves the oil company\u2019s successful 2019 verdict against Venezuela, following the nationalization of its assets by the Bolivarian Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ConocoPhillips sought enforcement of this award in multiple countries, including Guyana, where they appeared before Justice Gino Persaud. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Nandlall argues that recognizing the ruling could exacerbate tensions between Guyana and Venezuela, as both nations await a decision from the International Court of Justice on their border dispute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He emphasized that Guyana\u2019s stance is aligned with public policy concerns related to the territorial conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government plans to appeal the High Court&#8217;s decision, underscoring the complexity of the issue and its implications for international arbitration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Anil Nandlall has expressed strong opposition to the enforcement of an arbitral award in favor of U.S. firm ConocoPhillips, citing the ongoing border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,351],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22094,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22093\/revisions\/22094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}