The Venezuelan claim of the nullity of the 1899 ruling has been acknowledged by several foreign scholars and jurists, such as J. Gillis Wetter of Sweden, in his work The International Arbitral Process (1979), awarded by the American Society of International Law.
Venezuelas krav om ophævelse af afgørelsen fra 1899 er bakket op af flere forskere og jurister som J. Gittis Wetter fra Sverige i sit værk The International Arbitral Process (1979), som er præmieret af American Society of International Law.