St. Vincent and the Grenadines was among three CARICOM countries that voted against a failed US-backed resolution on Venezuela at the Organization of American States (OAS) general assembly convened in Mexico, last week.
The resolution included a proposal for a ‘group of friends’ to mediate the political crisis that has engulfed Venezuela.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Kitts and Nevis, and Dominica, voted against the resolution while Barbados, Bahamas, Belize, Guyana and St. Lucia supported it.
Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Haiti, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago abstained.
The resolution failed since it fell three votes short of the 23 needed to be passed.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines a staunch ally of Venezuela was represented at the OAS meeting by Minister of Economic Planning, Camillio Gonsalves.
