Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Sean Sobers, held dis­cus­sions ear­li­er to­day with Venezue­lan am­bas­sador, Ál­varo Sánchez Cordero. The meet­ing was deemed a cour­tesy call by the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment, "Both sides al­so dis­cussed mat­ters of mu­tu­al in­ter­est and con­cern, in­clu­sive of re­cent events with

Min­is­ter Sobers re­it­er­at­ing the Gov­ern­ment of the Re­pub­lic Trinidad and To­ba­go’s pre­vi­ous re­quest for in­for­ma­tion from the Gov­ern­ment of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela. Aris­ing out of the dis­cus­sions, it was agreed that in the spir­it of con­struc­tive di­a­logue, open diplo­mat­ic chan­nels would be main­tained with a view to en­sur­ing that the ex­change of in­for­ma­tion is fair, trans­par­ent and con­sis­tent."