UN General Assembly
2023

Let us turn to Venezuela. Oil prices are likely to go over $100. and those small countries that do not produce oil will be the victims of it. as will our people, including in large countries like the United States of America. We must bring resolution to those issues, and they are not incapable of resolution. When the United States of America and many countries in Europe determined that they were recognizing President Guaido without there being a presidency for him to assume because he faced no election, the members of the Caribbean Community came to this institution and met with the Secretary- General and with the representatives of a number of countries. Little by little, we saw people apply their hearts to wisdom and to recognize that the Charter of the United Nations did not allow for that kind of unconstitutional conferral of presidency on anyone.