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Mottley condemns U.S. military buildup in Caribbean
– warns of “dangerous and untenable” situation
(Kaieteur News) – Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, has issued a blistering condemnation of the United States’ military buildup in the Caribbean, warning that the region now faces an “extremely dangerous and untenable situation” with “menacing vessels” threatening peace and stability.
Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley
In her address at the Barbados Labour Party’s 86th annual conference in Bridgetown over the weekend, Mottley said, “If ever we needed a reminder of how unstable, and how dangerous this world that we live in is, and how vulnerable our Caribbean region is, it is now with us facing a multiplicity of threats.”
She continued, “We don’t need to look any further than the menacing vessels, military vessels, from the United States across the Caribbean Sea, including what is reputed to be the world’s largest warship.”
The Prime Minister noted that the situation currently unfolding is extremely dangerous, as region has had its share of being subjected to centuries of “big power, orchestrated genocide, terrorism, and warfare”.
Mottley was keen to note that peace is critical to the region, adding, “and now that peace is being threatened, we have to speak up. I believe that the time has come for us, therefore, to be able to ensure that we do not accept that any entity has the right to engage in extrajudicial killings of persons that they suspect of being involved in criminal activities.”
Instead, she made it clear that the Caribbean stands for the rule of law. She sent a strong message to the United States government: “We believe that if there is other intelligence available that would cause you to take action that is an immediate threat to you as a nation, then you have a duty to share it with us. But on the face of it, conflicting law enforcement with military action is a dangerous step.”
Moreover, the Prime Minister pointed out, “We equally do not accept that any nation in our region, or the greater Caribbean, should be the subject of an imposition upon them, of any unilateral expression of force and violence by any third party or nation.”
She reasoned that if there are conflicts and disputes in need of resolution then they should be addressed by the United Nations Organisation to ensure negotiation and peaceful actions are taken to settle disputes.
To this end, the Prime Minister urged, “The violent actions that this buildup has led to needs to be the subject of dialogue. And I have said before, almost every war in the world in history has been ended by dialogue. So let us have dialogue to prevent the war from starting, rather than to stop it when it has started.”
On Sunday, the CNN reported that a US warship docked in Trinidad and Tobago’s capital Sunday as the Trump administration boosts military pressure on neighbouring Venezuela and its President Nicolás Maduro.
The arrival of the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer, in the capital of the Caribbean nation is in addition to the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, which is moving closer to Venezuela. Maduro criticised the movement of the carrier as an attempt by the US government to fabricate “a new eternal war” against his country.
US President Donald Trump has accused Maduro, without providing evidence, of being the leader of the organised crime gang Tren de Aragua.
The arrival of the US warship follows at least 10 military strikes by the US military, killing 43 persons on suspected drug-carrying boats since September. Eight of those strikes occurred in the Caribbean Sea and two in the eastern Pacific. These strikes form part of the Donald Trump administration’s plan to confront drug trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, which Washington says poses a threat to America’s national security.
Intro: Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley has strongly condemned the buildup of United States (US) military forces in the Caribbean, as the Region now faces what she described as an “extremely dangerous and untenable situation” with “menacing vessels” threatening peace.
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