The foreign ministers of the integration bloc issued their remarks in the Final Declaration of the meeting, which took place in the context of the UN General Assembly and was attended by the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, and the Executive Secretary of the Alliance, Rander Pena.

The document reaffirmed the Proclamation of Latin America and the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace and rejected the “unjustified and extraordinary military deployment of the United States in the Caribbean, with the introduction of destroyers, guided-missile cruisers, and nuclear submarines.”

They condemned the “illegal interception” of the fishing vessel “Carmen Rosa” in Venezuela’s Exclusive Economic Zone, which was manned by nine fishermen, by a US Navy destroyer crewed by 18 military personnel.

The Declaration also condemned the extrajudicial executions “confessed by the United States government itself, perpetrated in the Caribbean Sea, which it described as a flagrant violation of fundamental human rights and seek to transform a region of peace into a space of confrontation and militarization.

The ALBA-TCP foreign ministers reaffirmed that the Caribbean Sea must be preserved as a zone of cooperation, development, and peaceful coexistence among peoples, rejecting any attempt to impose logics of war or domination.

The Political Council of the Bolivarian Alliance expressed its “absolute support” for President Nicolas Maduro, in the face of the unfounded accusations against him, which it considered lacking legal basis because they generate media harassment and threaten to delegitimize his democratically elected government.

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