{"id":61360,"date":"2019-09-12T17:42:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=61360"},"modified":"2019-09-12T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T21:43:13","slug":"commentary-handmaiden-to-the-tyranny-of-a-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/commentary-handmaiden-to-the-tyranny-of-a-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Handmaiden To The Tyranny Of A Minority"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/span><\/p>

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There have been many ignominious moments at the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) and many farcical decisions made, but they pale in significance when compared with the events of Wednesday, 11 September 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

On that day 11 countries, accompanied by the illegitimate representative of the self-proclaimed \u201cInterim President\u201d of Venezuela, Juan Guaid\u00f3, adopted a resolution opening the possibility of invading the sovereign territory of Venezuela with the obvious intention of achieving their self-interested goal of toppling the government of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/span><\/p>

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The ridiculousness of the proceedings at the OAS Permanent Council is that 16 of the legitimate 33 member states of the Organization had no vote in the resolution because they are not signatories of The Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (the Rio Treaty) under which the dangerous resolution was invoked and adopted.\u00a0 By a previously absurd decision, in 1975, 21 then signatory countries of the Rio Treaty decided to make the OAS Permanent Council the body in which matters related to the Treaty would be discussed.<\/span><\/p>

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At that time, only two CARICOM countries were signatories to the Treaty, namely Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago.\u00a0 A third CARICOM country, the Bahamas, did not join until 1982.\u00a0 No CARICOM country has joined since.\u00a0 Canada, a big player in the OAS, is also not a signatory.<\/span><\/p>\n

The actual number of signatory states is now 17, although farcically, the register still shows the membership as 19 with Cuba and Venezuela as signatory states.\u00a0 Cuba withdrew from the OAS and, informally, from all hemispheric bodies in 1962 and Venezuela formally withdrew in 2013.\u00a0 It would have been interesting to see what the present signatory countries would have done had Cuba sent a representative to the meeting. Another four of the original members of the Rio Treaty have also \u201cdenounced\u201d it, withdrawing from membership.\u00a0 These countries are: Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico and Nicaragua.<\/span><\/p>

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In the event, 10 signatory states of the Rio Treaty and Juan Guaid\u00f3\u2019s improperly seated OAS representative, proposed a resolution, arising from this anachronistic 1947 Treaty for adoption at a meeting of the Permanent Council of the OAS.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

The objective of the resolution was clearly set out in an accompanying notice.\u00a0 It claimed, without any supporting evidence, that \u201ca series of developments and situations, which are as a consequence of the Venezuelan crisis, pose a threat to peace in the Americas and [-} affect the inviolability or the integrity of the territory or the sovereignty or political independence of various American states\u201d. Spuriously it went on to say: \u201cIt is for that reason that measures need to be adopted by the member states of the (Rio Treaty) based on the principles of inter-American solidarity and cooperation established in said instrument\u201d.<\/span><\/p>

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Venezuela was thereby set-up for \u201cmeasures\u201d that would be agreed by a two-thirds vote of the Foreign Ministers of the claimed 19 signatory countries at a meeting to be held \u201cin the second half of September 2019\u201d when they will be attending the UN General Assembly in New York.\u00a0 The measures include: establishing a naval and aerial blockade of Venezuela or using military force.<\/span><\/p>

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If there was any doubt that the 10 governments plus Guaid\u00f3\u2019s representative had anything but military force in mind, that doubt disappeared when, by virtue of their simple majority of the claimed 19 signatories, they spurned an amendment from Costa Rica which proposed that any \u201cmeasures\u201d would exclude \u201cthose that may involve the use of armed force\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

So, clearly armed force is very much in the collective minds of the countries the 11 governments plus Guaid<\/span>\u00f3<\/span>\u2019s representative that eventually pushed through the resolution.\u00a0 The 11 countries are the original 10 proposers of the resolution Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and the United States of America, plus Chile that voted with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alarmingly \u2013 and ludicrously \u2013 the resolution was adopted in the name of the Permanent Council of the OAS, even through 15 member states have no connection with the Rio Treaty and could not vote, and 5 of the signatory states did not support it.\u00a0\u00a0 The latter states are: Costa Rica, Panama, Peru, Uruguay and Trinidad and Tobago.\u00a0 Bahamas, which is a member state, was absent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly, governments of countries, which have been the victims of invasion, supported this resolution which, in the words of the Mexican Ambassador, Luz Elena Ba<\/span>\u00f1<\/span>os Rivas, \u201cinextricably entails the possibility of the use of force [-} and is contrary to international law\u201d.\u00a0 Among these is the government of Haiti, a CARICOM member state.<\/span><\/p>\n

At some point in the not too distant future, CARICOM itself will have to consider whether its member states have breached undertakings in its own treaty and whether they should abandon any effort to achieve a common foreign policy.\u00a0 Failure to deal definitively with this situation would ruin CARICOM\u2019s greatest strength \u2013 its 14 votes pooled in unison.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 1947 Rio Treaty emerged in the context of a world that had just emerged from World War II.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a world in which CARICOM countries, except for Haiti, were all colonies as were the majority of countries of Asia, Africa and the Pacific.\u00a0\u00a0 The United States was the rising, but dominant, power of the Americas, and Canada was still a dominion of the British Crown.\u00a0 Cuba was in thrall to mafia outfits from the US, and Latin American countries were ruled by undemocratic juntas for the most part.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is nothing short of shameful that a handful of countries would invoke a 72-year old, outdated treaty in today\u2019s world to try to accomplish the crushing of a government they dislike.\u00a0 Today, Venezuela; tomorrow who and to serve whose interests?<\/span><\/p>\n

Equally, it continues to be deeply disturbing that, at the OAS, a minority of states make and impose decisions that wreck the organization\u2019s institutional foundations and reduces it to a weapon for the interests of a few.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peace and security is increasingly endangered in the hemisphere, as is the relevance of the OAS as set out in the obligations of its Charter: \u201cto achieve an order of peace and justice, to promote their solidarity, to strengthen their collaboration, and to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity, and their independence\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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