By Robert A Emmanuel, Antigua Observer
Political and social commentator Stafford Lewis has criticised Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s current feedback on the Russia-Ukraine battle which he stated seem obstructive to the federal government’s intent to influence the US to ascertain an embassy in Antigua.
Talking on his radio station on Saturday, Browne stated he had informed the brand new US Ambassador to Barbados and the Jap Caribbean Roger Nyhus, who made his first go to to the island final week, that Ukraine’s bid to hitch NATO was “mindless” and that it ought to give up to Russia.
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Lewis questioned why the Prime Minister would depart from established diplomatic stances on the Russia-Ukraine battle, together with that of his Ambassador to the US, Sir Ronald Sanders, and International Minister EP Chet Greene.
“It places us in a really harmful scenario and particularly now that we’re trying to forge a brand new relationship with the brand new ambassador from america.
“If we need to woo this embassy from america, to be seated in Antigua, we’ve got to be very cautious as to how we posture ourselves with our alignment to China and Russia,” Lewis argued.
Browne stated that he couldn’t envision doing what the Ukrainian President has completed, which he stated was to “topic my folks and my nation to the form of destruction to be a part of NATO”.
Lewis stated, as a nation with democratic rules, the Prime Minister shouldn’t be making “rogue feedback”.
“Any lucid-thinking one who stands for democracy and, let’s face it, we’re a democracy—aligned with all of the democratic organisations beginning with the OECS, the British Commonwealth, the OAS — so how will we step out to go rogue and to be making such a press release, particularly coming from our Prime Minister?” he famous.
Lewis stated until Browne made the feedback pondering that the US can be extra inclined to ascertain an embassy on the island to “offset our alignment with China”, he couldn’t perceive the assertion.
“I simply assume it’s the complete China dependency, and utilizing China and Russia, who’ve a nexus, to affect his thought course of,” the political commentator added.
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