The Trail of Diplomacy

<p>This volume the second of a three-part documentary continues the history of the Guyana-Venezuela border issue from where Volume One left off. It describes Venezuela���s dissatisfaction over the territorial and boundary award issued in 1899 by the international arbitral tribunal subsequently leading to that country���s government unilaterally declaring it in 1962 as being ���null and void.��� The volume goes on to examine the evolved political events including the sporadic Venezuelan infringements of Guyana���s territorial integrity and the pursuit of diplomacy by both countries resulting eventually in 1966 to a formal agreement at Geneva aimed at seeking a practical settlement of the ���controversy��� arising from Venezuela���s contention of the nullity of the arbitral award. A subsidiary protocol to suspend the search for a settlement was signed in Port of Spain in 1970 but the succeeding twelve-year period was characterized by a succession of bilateral political interplay resulting in Venezuela���s decision to terminate this pact in 1982.</p>