Akash Sama­roo

Cari­com has warned that its plat­forms must not be used to ad­vance ter­ri­to­r­i­al claims, even as it reaf­firmed strong sup­port for Guyana’s sov­er­eign­ty fol­low­ing con­cerns raised by Pres­i­dent Dr Mo­hamed Ir­faan Ali over re­cent ac­tions from Venezuela.

The re­sponse comes af­ter Pres­i­dent Ali wrote to Cari­com chair­man and St Kitts and Nevis Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ter­rance Drew, rais­ing alarm over what he de­scribed as a “provoca­tive” dis­play by Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez dur­ing re­cent vis­its to re­gion­al states.