The next assertion was issued by former Prime Minister of Jamaica P.J. Patterson following Thursday’s assembly in St Vincent & The Grenadines geared toward settling simmering tensions between Guyana and Venezuela over Venezuela’s renewed claims over the Essequibo area of Guyana.
Our total Hemisphere breathes a welcome signal of aid on the end result of the Summit convened in St Vincent on December 14. It established a number of important precedents which deserve due commendation and point out a path for the long run.
It was a Caribbean initiative which demonstrated the intrinsic worth of collective regional motion. CARICOM stepped ahead in united efforts to face the problem of preserving the territorial integrity of Guyana, a founding member state and headquarters of the Caribbean Group.
It demonstrated that in a world of unprecedented turbulence, diplomatic abilities and negotiating experience can nonetheless be deployed to avert army battle.
It asserts that the Caribbean and Latin America, regardless of the colonial rivalry and exploitation by European powers, represent one hemispheric household. That highlights the deserves of our full engagement and current management of CELAC.
We acknowledge that the far reaching agreements don’t represent a last settlement, however present mechanisms to bolster wholesome, productive and peaceable relationships between neighbours. It constitutes a mannequin for devising consultative approaches to handle different long-standing border dispute in South and Central America.
No reward is just too excessive for President Ali of Guyana and President Maduro of Venezuela for his or her preparedness and braveness in accepting the phrases of the Argyle Declaration. Prime Minister Gonsalves and present Chair of CELAC revealed his astute abilities and appreciable expertise, with intensive help from Prime Minister Skerrit, Chairman of CARICOM and President Lula by means of his trusted Emissary, Celso Amorim who had been the principal interlocutors.
Commendations are on account of all of the Caribbean Prime Ministers, who had been in attendance, to Representatives of the UN Secretary Basic, CARICOM, and the CELAC Troika, to endorse the Declaration and pledge to facilitate its well timed implementation. Allow us to all as residents of the Caribbean Sea applaud and encourage this daring step to style a Caribbean the place peace and concord prevail.
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P.J. Patterson served as Jamaica’s sixth and longest serving Prime Minister [14 years] earlier than retiring in early 2006. He at present serves as Statesman in Residence at The P.J. Patterson Institute for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy, primarily based on the Mona Campus of the College of the West Indies
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