Port of Spain Protocol

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Port of Spain Protocol

Protocol to the Agreement to resolve the controversy between Venezuela and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the frontier between Venezuela and British Guiana
Map of Essequibo; The area lined in orange constitutes the area claimed by Venezuela.
Type	Procedural and supplementary treaty to another international treaty.
Drafted	March-June 1970
Signed	June 18, 1970 (1970-06-18)
Location	Port of Spain,  Trinidad and Tobago
Effective	Never enforced
Expiry	June 18, 1982; 42 years ago (1982-06-18)
Signatories	Guyana  United Kingdom  Republic of Venezuela
Depositary	United Nations

Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute
History
Schomburgk Line (1840) Venezuelan crisis (1895) Paris Arbitral Award (1899) Mallet-Prevost memorandum (1949) Geneva Agreement (1966) Rupununi uprising (1969) Port of Spain Protocol (1970) 2023 Guyana–Venezuela crisis Venezuelan referendum
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The Protocol to the Agreement to resolve the controversy between Venezuela and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland over the frontier between Venezuela and British Guiana, simply known as the Port of Spain Protocol, is a protocol of the 1966 Geneva Agreement between Guyana and Venezuela and a 12-year moratorium on Venezuela's reclamation of Guayana Esequiba.