1954 Geneva Conference to be decided unanimously, Poland's presence in the ICC provided the communists effective veto power over supervision of the treaty. The unsigned "Final Declaration of the Geneva Conference" called for reunification elections, which the majority of delegates expected to be supervised by the ICC. The Viet Minh never accepted ICC authority over such elections, stating that the ICC's "competence was to be limited to the supervision and control of the implementation of the Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities by both parties." Of the nine delegates present, only the United States and the State of Vietnam refused to accept the
Geneva Agreement (1966) Guyana should have signed it. On the 52nd anniversary of the international treaty being signed in Switzerland, Venezuelan Government has reaffirmed it's commitment to the Geneva Agreement. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza declared that the Bolivarian nation was ready to comply to the agreement. President Nicolas Maduro has called on the Venezuelan people to defend their "legitimate and non-renounceable" territorial rights over the Essequibo region. Defense Minister Vladamir Padrino Lopez stresses that Venezuelans should continue to claim their territory and stated on his social media "The Sun of Venezuela is born in the Essequibo." The agreement was criticized in Guyana