AMCHAM T&T welcomes renewed engagement with Venezuela

The Amer­i­can Cham­ber of Com­merce of Trinidad and To­ba­go (AM­CHAM T&T) has wel­comed the re­newed T&T/Venezue­lan en­gage­ment as an im­por­tant step to­wards build­ing a stronger, more se­cure and pros­per­ous re­la­tion­ship be­tween both coun­tries.

The or­gan­i­sa­tion made the state­ment fol­low­ing last Thurs­day’s vis­it by For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers to Venezuela and the re­newed com­mit­ment to strength­en­ing re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries.

AM­CHAM T&T CEO Ni­rad Tewarie stat­ed, “The Joint Press State­ment is­sued fol­low­ing the vis­it iden­ti­fies trade, en­er­gy, agri­cul­ture, sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment, en­vi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion, cul­ture and col­lec­tive se­cu­ri­ty as pri­or­i­ty ar­eas for greater co­op­er­a­tion. AM­CHAM T&T be­lieves re­newed en­gage­ment can cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties for eco­nom­ic growth and in­vest­ment, while ad­vanc­ing both coun­tries' en­er­gy in­ter­ests and strength­en­ing re­gion­al sta­bil­i­ty.”