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FORMER UNC MP Rodney Charles says statesmanship is required to prevent an escalation of the war of words between Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela over claims by the Venezuelan government that a group of terrorists passed through TT to enter its territory.

Charles was a former ambassador to the UN under the former UNC-led People's Partnership coalition government from May 2010-September 2015.

Before the April 28 general election, he was the then opposition UNC's shadow foreign affairs minister.