Do­mini­ca’s Prime Min­is­ter Roo­sevelt Sker­rit said Mon­day that his coun­try is pre­pared to act as a me­di­a­tor in the cur­rent con­flict be­tween the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, re­it­er­at­ing that the Caribbean re­gion should al­ways be a zone of peace.

Speak­ing at the end of year news con­fer­ence, PM Sker­rit told re­porters that Do­mini­ca and the wider Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) re­gion is urg­ing “di­a­logue and diplo­ma­cy” to deal with the sit­u­a­tion, giv­en that “there would be an im­pact on every coun­try” should there be a war in the Caribbean.

“Do­mini­ca is a good friend of both the Unit­ed States and Venezuela, and in the past we have worked to­geth­er as an in­ter­me­di­ary,” he stat­ed, “and we are pre­pared to do so in this cur­rent sit­u­a­tion if there are mes­sages from ei­ther side to each oth­er.”