UN General Assembly
1965

68. I should like to use before this world body the words of Mr. Raúl Leoni, the President of the Republic of Venezuela, in order to express the unchangeable decision of the Government of my country with regard to the award to which I have referred: "Venezuela is working actively and will not abandon its aspirations, for they are based on the restoration of rights which were denied to it in an irrational and brutal way and without any foundation, in a decision which was contrary to law. The award is null and void — that is to say, it has no legal existence."