KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC—St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has written to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainian chief Volodymyr Zelensky, and the USA President Joe Biden calling for an finish to the continuing struggle in Ukraine.
“I write in a quest for international peace, justice, safety, prosperity for all humanity, grounded within the elementary tenets of worldwide regulation, the precepts of the Constitution of the United Nations, and multilateral engagement,” Gonsalves stated in his December 2 letter, that was additionally copied to the Secretary Normal of the United Nations, António Guterres.
“I’m making a humble plea for an honorable, negotiated finish, instantly, to the struggle in Ukraine,” Gonsalves stated in his letter, which was additionally copied to heads of state and authorities of members of the United Nations.
Gonsalves, in his letter, which his workplace launched to the media on Monday, famous that the struggle has been raging since February 2022 and has “just lately entered a most harmful part of escalation which portends a hitherto unthinkable nuclear Armageddon.
“To civilized women and men throughout the globe, this struggle makes no sense because it has been brutal and utterly pointless. It’s as if the world’s strongest and superior nations have discovered nothing of lasting worth from the historical past of humankind.”
He stated the primary combatants, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, totally backed by the international locations of the North Atlantic Treaty Group (NATO) led principally by the USA, “seem to the majority of humanity’s eight billion folks to be gripped by an excessive situation of unreason, in sensible disregard not solely of life and limb, blood and treasure of their peoples however of the knock-on international results of further ache and struggling for the remainder of us, together with presumably the collapse of human civilization as we now have come to realize it.
“Atypical women and men internationally have turn into helpless bystanders to a seemingly inevitable march to their destruction, even their extinction. Absolutely, it’s past time to cease this struggle, which, to most of us, has a tribal ferocity that’s well-nigh incomprehensible.”
Gonsalves stated he has adopted the course of the struggle very intently, from its beginnings to its numerous twists and turns.
He stated he has learn, from numerous standpoints, of the struggle’s “origins, meanderings, all of the accusations and counter-accusations, and the navy operations on the bottom.
“It’s evident to all individuals of cause, who additionally apply their hearts to knowledge, that this struggle is not going to finish with navy triumph for one facet or one other. Posturing and protracting this contestation on the battlefield make no sense, virtually or ideationally.”
The Vincentian chief stated it was not his place to prescribe what a probable, negotiated peace would appear to be, “however I really feel certain, conceptually, that neither facet on this struggle can be delighted with any phrases of a peace settlement.”
He stated both sides should, due to this fact, be ready “to reach, in peace, in a mutually-agreed situation of dissatisfaction.
“In time, this agreed situation of dissatisfaction, which is preferable to continued struggle, could propitiously evolve right into a extra settled bundle of satisfactions.”
Gonsalves quoted from the poem “We’re the Cenotaphs” by native poet Daniel Williams’ during which he wrote, “We’re all time, But solely the long run is ours to desecrate. The current is the previous, And the previous, our fathers’ mischiefs.”
Gonsalves stated his “solemn and pressing plea to the distinguished Presidents of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the USA of America, with the help of the esteemed Secretary Normal of the United Nations, is to carry the struggle in Ukraine to a negotiated peaceable finish now, in honor to the precise combatants, their struggling households, and all humanity who’re in ache.”
He quoted early Twentieth-century Irish poet W.B. Yeats, who wrote “The Second Coming” throughout a heated contestation between colonial Britain and the Irish nationalists.
Within the early Twentieth century, the celebrated poet of Eire, W.B. Yeats, on the time of a heated contestation between colonial Britain and the Irish nationalists, wrote for the ages “The Second Coming.”
“I urge that all of us pay attention rigorously and replicate upon the which means of Yeats’ profound providing in our present context. Certainly, the heard melodies of those phrases are candy, however these unheard are sweeter,” Gonsalves stated, echoing English poet John Keats.
“The 4 undoubtedly nice leaders whom I tackle on this missive have an existential obligation to not sleep to dream however to dream to alter our world for the higher. We should not sleepwalk right into a nuclear Armageddon, and we can’t proceed the present carnage. Let historical past absolve us,” he stated, echoing Guyanese poet Martin Carter.
The letter is the second that Gonsalves has written to Putin for the reason that struggle started.
In his February 2022 letter, Gonsalves advised Putin that ‘as a longstanding pal of the Russian Federation, St. Vincent and Grenadines is deeply disturbed at your authorities’s initiative of a particular navy operation within the territory of Ukraine, an impartial republic.”
Within the letter, Gonsalves additionally advised the Russian chief that the federal government of the Caribbean nation understood “your articulation of the reliable safety concerns of the Russian Federation and your views on the political state of affairs within the area of Donbas, inclusive of the declaration of the Donetsk Individuals’s Republic and the Luhansk Individuals’s Republic.”
Gonsalves, nevertheless, had stated that Putin’s authorities stance on the matter at hand, “taken at its highest in your favor, can’t moderately justify the particular navy operation upon which Russia has embarked.
“Self evidently, the metaphoric horse and chariot have been pushed by the chatter of the United Nations,” Gonsalves added.
