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Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has called on the United States to amend its foreign policy stance toward the Caribbean warning that a big stick approach will no longer work. A CMC report states Thomas said that one of the Presidential candidates seems to have recognised that when he stated that we have paid the price for a foreign policy that lectures without listening "that divides us from one another and from the world, instead of calling us for a common purpose." Thomas made the comment while addressing the annual Inter-American Economic Council Heads of Government dinner on Wednesday evening. Thomas, who is the current chairman of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, further argued that in order for there to be strengthening of its relationship with the region, the US needed to promote greater sensitivity and fairness. The Grenada Prime Minister added, "The view recognises the real and important value of small states as we collectively engage global issues such as strengthening democracies, security, terrorism and the environment. It is these shared goal qualitatively reshaping relations between states." Thomas, who was elected as Head of Government on July 8, also expressed the hope that his visit to Washington, and courtesy call on US President George W. Bush, would mark the beginning of a more productive phase in region. In fact he said he was "optimistic" that the friendship would deepen in the future. |
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