UN General Assembly
1968

54. Guyana’s boundaries with Venezuela were settled nearly seventy years ago, even as the nineteenth century was drawing to its close. It was settled with due formality by an international Arbitral Tribunal established under the Treaty of Arbitration? which the Government of Venezuela had freely signed. Indeed, it may be of more than historical interest that the United States, on behalf of Venezuela, had actually threatened to go to war with Britain if Britain failed to sign that treaty. It was a treaty to settle for all time the boundary between Venezuela and what was then Britain’s colony of British Guiana; and each side — Venezuela and Britain — undertook in solemn terms: “...to consider the result of the proceeds of the Tribunal of Arbitration as a full, perfect, and final settlement of all the questions referred to the Arbitrators".