Gonsalves calls on US to curb export of guns to the Caribbean
POSTED ON JANUARY 10, 2023
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Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves - FP
Kingstown – The St Vincent and the Grenadines government on Monday called on the United States to do more to curb the easy access of illegal weapons and their easy exportation to Latin America and the Caribbean.
Gonsalves, speaking on a radio programme here, decried the proliferation of guns manufactured in the United States and violence associated with the illegal drugs trade as the main cause for the high rate of murders in some Latin American and Caribbean countries.
“The United States of America had to do something about not having the easy access to guns and the easy exportation of guns. They have the resources to help us with that,” he said noting that Mexico has circulated a draft resolution to be discussed at the January 24 meeting in Argentina of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) “on this very matter”.
The draft notes that the CELAC members meeting in Bueno Aires for their seventh summit “acknowledges that while the region represents eight per cent of the world population, it experiences 37 per cent of the world’s homicide mostly caused by firearms that have been manufactured or distributed in the United States and the trafficked in the region”.
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