St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves has urged both Trinidad and To­ba­go and Venezuela to ex­er­cise re­straint and re­solve their dif­fer­ences peace­ful­ly and in line with in­ter­na­tion­al law.

“All I would like to do is to urge both neigh­bours to con­tin­ue to act peace­ful­ly in ac­cor­dance with in­ter­na­tion­al law,” Gon­salves said in an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day.

He warned against in­flam­ing the sit­u­a­tion with strong lan­guage. “As far as prac­ti­ca­ble, we do not in­cline the sit­u­a­tion with any ex­ces­sive rhetoric. We just take our pa­tience in­to ac­count. And what­ev­er is the prob­lem, we solve them ma­ture­ly be­tween two neigh­bours.”