Published 12 March 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
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Vance Amory represented PM Harris at ALBA, Group denounces attempts to revive Monroe Doctrine
Basseterre, St. Kitts, March 10, 2018 – The St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was represented by a three-person delegation at the Heads of States and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) member nations who gathered in Caracas recently.
St. Kitts and Nevis’ Senior Minister and Minister of Social Security and Labour, Hon. Vance Amory, Special Envoy in the Office of the Prime Minster Ambassador Michael Powell and Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mrs. Sonia Boddie-Thompson and their ALBA colleagues reaffirmed the principles of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Peace Zone, signed by the Heads of States and/or Government at the 2nd CELAC Summit held in Havana on January 28th and 29th, 2014.
The St. Kitts and Nevis delegation that represented St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris was among Heads of States and Government of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Trade Treaty of the Peoples (ALBA-TCP) member nations who gathered in Caracas recently.
St. Kitts and Nevis’ Senior Minister and Minister of Social Security and Labour, Hon. Vance Amory, Special Envoy in the Office of the Prime Minster Ambassador Michael Powell and Foreign Service Officer in the Ministry of Foreign affairs and Sonia Boddie-Thompson and their ALBA colleagues reaffirmed the principles of the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Peace Zone, signed by the Heads of States and/or Government at the 2nd CELAC Summit held in Havana on January 28th and 29th, 2014.
The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America-Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP) supported the right of Venezuela to participate in the 8th Summit of the Americas
ALBA-TCP Secretary General David Choquehuanca expressed that the organization intends to “apply diplomatic and political measures” to guarantee the participation of Venezuela in the event in Lima, Peru. Photo: Venezuelan Foreign Ministry
The Summit rejected the exclusion of the outh American nation and its President Nicolás Maduro from the high-level meeting to be held in the Peruvian capital.
The Secretary General of the integration bloc, David Choquehuanca, expressed during the reading of the conclusive text that ALBA-TCP intends to “apply diplomatic and political measures” to guarantee the participation of Venezuela in said event.
The organization expressed its disagreement “with the pronouncement by a group of countries of the continent, issued on February 13, 2018, in Lima, Peru, which constitutes interference in the internal affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
“We urge the international community to abstain from exercising coercion of any type against the political independence and territorial integrity of Venezuela, as a practice incompatible with International Law and the Charter of the United Nations, and contrary to the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace,” the text continued.
The declaration also denounces Washington’s attempts to return to the mechanism of regional domination represented by the Monroe Doctrine, as well as military threats and calls for a coup against the legitimate government of Venezuela.
Also echoed is the international demand for the definitive lifting of the U.S. blockade imposed for more than half a century against Cuba.
ALBA-TCP member countries repudiated the advance of political and economic corruption in the region, “manifested by the growing inequality in the distribution of wealth.”
They also reiterated the commitment to “Latin American and Caribbean unity,” and defended their “commitment to genuinely Latin American and Caribbean integration processes such as CELAC, UNASUR, Petrocaribe, CARICOM and ALBA-TCP, to guarantee the sovereignty, independence, equality and self-determination of our peoples.”
Photo 1 – Hon. Vance Amory
Photo 2 shows some of the Heads of delegation
