Appears that #Guaidó government has submitted documents to #ICJ to support claim of lack of jurisdiction in #Guyana’s application against #Venezuela (relying on Google Translate for this source so please correct). 1/ https://twitter.com/presidencia_ve/status/1301895879943651328

Many of the issues relating to the capacity to represent #Venezuela before the #ICJ were summarised in @bruno_faucher’s excellent thread. 2/ https://twitter.com/bruno_faucher/status/1277951387201142785

However, those thorny issues could be sidestepped, as the production of documents in this instance is very late. As evident from article 56 of the Rules, the production of documents even after the close of written submissions is an exception. 3/

While in El Salvador/Honduras art 56 was applied regarding submitting docs after oral proceedings, Rosenne’s argues that “[l]ittle value as a precedent can be found” from there (also notes that errata slip corrected passage, so that reads “closure of the *oral* proceedings”). 4/

However, with #Venezuela’s non-appearance, the legal issue may be more complex. In the #Nicaragua case, the #ICJ was indeed willing to consider a document circulated by the #US (but not submitted pursuant to the ICJ Rules) around the time of the oral proceedings. 5/

Yet, the document there was directed at, and available to, a broader audience and was known to the Court during oral proceedings. In this instance, oral proceedings closed over two months ago and the addressee of the documents appears to be solely the #ICJ. 6/END