Dear Editor,
Recently, Mr. Ralph Ramkarran, in one of his weekly ruminations at Conversation Tree dot com, stated that one of the reasons “why the US got upset with the PPP was because the Party did not support a resolution on Syria”.
In his reference to the resolution Mr. Ramkarran conveniently forgot to mention a very important call in the resolution viz; support for the opposition in Syria.
For Mr. Ramkarran’s information and guidance Guyana could not support the resolution in that form since there was no indication who was the “opposition”.
The PPP/C government was eventually vindicated since it eventually came to light that the “opposition” is part, if not in toto, the infamous ISIS.
Further, it should be noted that other Caricom countries as well as non-Caricom countries abstained. The question to Mr. Ramkarran is; should these countries be considered enemies of the West?
In respect to the visit to Iran where an understanding was reached to map our mineral deposits, this never occurred since the PPP/C government told the Iranian officials that the details would have to be worked out. That is where the matter ended.
However, soon after details of the visit became public knowledge the PPP/C government received offers from the “West” to work with Guyana on oil and gas.
Mr. Ramkarran must know that the PPP/C’s foreign policy has always been associated with diplomatic activism and engagement.
It certainly does not make sense to be enemies with those who are not friends of some of our friends.
Mr. Ramkarran must ponder over the possibility that it is resistance to the resolution on Iran pushed by certain countries, that resulted in the parties becoming convinced of the need to sit together and negotiate eventually resulting in the Accord between the US and Iran.
Yours faithfully,
Clement Rohee
General Secretary
People’s Progressive Party
