Barbados Willing to Help Venezuela Resolve Situation

By: - April 8th, 2014

Above: Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart (CJ Photo)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Barbados is willing to “use its good offices” to help in quelling the “restlessness on the streets of Venezuela,” Prime Minister Freundel Stuart said Sunday.

Stuart, who was speaking at the Inter-American Press Association’s mid-year meeting at the Hilton Barbados, said he was set to meet this week with Venezuela’s Ambassador to Barbados this week to “discuss matters of mutual interest.”

“I think it is desirable that countries are allowed to settle down so that the pursuit of developmental goals can be undertaken and I don’t think that the restlessness on the streets of Venezuela is for anybody’s comfort and I would certainly like to see an end brought to that,” Stuart said.

The Prime Minister, who said the long relationship between the two countries was “quite normal,” was responding to a question on the situation in Venezuela.

“I can assure you this, if there is anything that Barbados could do to end that situation and to help the country to settle down so that the elected Government of Venezuela can get on with its work, Barbados will use its good offices in that regard,” Stuart said.

Barbados has an Ambassador based in Venezuela.

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