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Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has stated emphatically that this country will be opposed to an invasion of Venezuela by the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Gonsalves made his position clear in an\ninterview by radio personality Dwight \u2018Bing\u2019 Joseph on the \u2018OMG In The Morning\u2019\ninteractive programme on BOOM FM on Tuesday morning. He was responding to the\nquestion of a possible US-invasion with support from some Caricom governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSt Vincent and the Grenadines will be\nentirely opposed to an invasion; for the simple reason, Article 2 paragraph 4\nof the Charter of the United Nations makes it plain that you can\u2019t threaten or\nuse force against another country,\u201d Dr Gonsalves stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Vincentian leader said there are only\ntwo exceptions in the charter: \u201c1. If you\u2019re doing so for self-defense \u2013 and\nclearly, there is no issue of aggression by Venezuela against the United States\nhere \u2013 or, secondly, if it is a situation adjudged by the Security Council to\nbe so serious that it requires a response through the Security Council for an\nintervention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Gonsalves said the reason the US is not\ngoing to the Security Council \u2013 having tried it before – is that it doesn\u2019t\nmeasure up to a global security threat and they won\u2019t get the support of the\nSecurity Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the question of Russia having sent\nmilitary troops to support Venezuela, Prime Minister Gonsalves said \u201cthere is\nno evidence that that has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr Gonsalves reiterated that this country\nstands by the UN Charter which is international law and that it is expected\nthat the international law will serve to protect nations from the more powerful\nin the same way domestic laws serve to protect citizens from bigger persons who\nseek to bully them.\n\n\n\n\n\n\\datasto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has stated emphatically that this country will be opposed to an invasion of Venezuela by the United States of America. Dr Gonsalves made his position clear in an interview by radio personality Dwight \u2018Bing\u2019 Joseph on the \u2018OMG In The Morning\u2019 interactive programme on BOOM FM on Tuesday morning. He<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n