By R. Butcher. Updated 6:21 p.m., Saturday, September 26, 2025, Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-4).
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph E. Gonsalves called for peace among nations at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on September 27, urging diplomatic dialogue, adherence to international law, and regional cooperation to promote stability in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Minister Gonsalves said that it is long overdue for the fractured relationship between the United States of America and Cuba to be restored in mutual respect, in accordance with international law, and consistent with the interests of both neighbors for peace, security, and shared prosperity.
He added that St. Vincent and the Grenadines implores the United States, a great nation, to heed and act upon the near-unanimous advice of the General Assembly, which has repeatedly called for an end to the oppressive and unlawful embargo against Cuba.
“I am calling for a mature conversation between the United States of America and Cuba,” the Prime Minister said.
He stated that the recent escalation of tensions between the United States and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is highly unhelpful to peace and stability in the Caribbean and Latin America.
PM calls for a scaling back of actions and rhetoric that are harmful to cordial neighborly relations.
He said that they find the foreign militarization of the waters around Venezuela exceedingly troubling. He noted that the countries of the Caribbean and Latin America have repeatedly and unanimously declared the region a zone of peace. “We urge our American friends to abide by this declaration. By all means, let us cooperate in combating drug trafficking and allied transnational criminal activities, but unilateral militarization is decidedly not the way to go,” the Prime Minister said.
The Prime Minister said he wants cooperation in combating drug trafficking and allied transnational criminal activities, but stressed that unilateral militarization is not the way to go. He also urged the American and Venezuelan governments to sit down maturely and talk through their problems to reach a solution.
In Haiti, he said that political, economic, and social conditions continue to deteriorate. Gang violence remains rampant, and a veritable Hobbesian state of nature exists in which life is nasty, brutish, and short. Haiti’s political and economic elites have been found wanting. He said that the international community, though possessing the means to assist, has not yet summoned the will to do so.
“A solution is required in accordance with the Haitian people’s deepest longings for peace, security, and a normal, civilized life. The UN Security Council, with CARICOM’s full support, is seized of this matter, but it has been attended by an insufficiency of resources and will,” the Prime Minister said.
This information was sourced from the United Nations Caribbean page.
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