PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis. Photo: Donavan McIntosh/Tribune staff
CARICOM is awaiting a decision from the United Nations Security Council before taking a position on whether member states should impose sanctions on Russia, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said yesterday.
Mr Davis spoke from Belize, where he is attending CARICOM meetings.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing war were brought up yesterday at the sessions.
“. . .The issue of Russia and Ukraine, as I mentioned earlier when I embarked to come to these meetings, I knew it would loom large in our deliberations and dialogue,” Mr Davis said in an interview with Press Secretary Clint Watson.
“We today issued a very strong statement in support of the UN charter that protects and preserves a country’s territorial integrity and their sovereignty. And in that regard, flowing from that, is the question of sanctions (being) imposed by CARICOM states.
“The general consensus is that until the UN Security Council will pass a resolution to confirm that member states ought to impose sanctions, we have decided to just sit back and wait to abide (by) the outcome of such resolution.”
He also said: “A number of countries have indicated that overtures have been made to them in respect to sanctions, that’s why the question came (as) to what we will do as a collective body and came down on the side of awaiting and abiding the decision of the UN Security Council.”
Mr Davis said talks were also held on climate change at CARICOM meetings.
“We discussed the issue. We are going to remain engaged in dialogue and we are going to make sure that our voices are heard in the right places.”
Regional leaders discussed accessing funding for mitigation and adaptation, and the challenges in obtaining these funds, he said.
Comments
killemwitdakno 2 years, 2 months ago
LIMA states will eventually sanction. We can use more boats parked during storm season. The selfish dumbass heartless lost nonsense-rhetoric Maduro backer half may be stuck and hopefully not face Moise's fate. Good thing Minnis was in during, otherwise we may have been in that group knowing PLP's alignments.
killemwitdakno 2 years, 2 months ago
When abusers are afraid of others doing what they do. Putin says Nato is expanding and that the US tested missile nearby, yet Putin had been setting up launchers, bases, and flying bomber flights over Latin America scaring everybody from years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMi23...">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMi23...
killemwitdakno 2 years, 2 months ago
Putin could not have expected to win his next election with this.
Proguing 2 years, 2 months ago
But the media is telling as that he is a dictator? What are you talking about?
tribanon 2 years, 2 months ago
LMAO. The very sinister and evil Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party that he leads has already told Davis and Mitchell in no uncertain terms what they will do to the Bahamas if it dares to support sanctions being imposed on Putin and Russia by the CARICOM states.
TalRussell 2 years, 2 months ago
We UK Colony's doubling down against duh waring Putin will place colony at great financial risks, ― Yes?
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