The Drag­on Gas Agree­ment of­fers ben­e­fits for Trinidad and To­ba­go, the Unit­ed States, and Venezuela, ad­vanc­ing re­gion­al part­ner­ship, en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty, and eco­nom­ic growth, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has said.

The PM’s as­ser­tion fol­lows the Gov­ern­ment se­cur­ing an OFAC li­cence, which Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­scribed as a “fresh start­ing point” in on­go­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions.

The li­cence came af­ter her re­cent meet­ing with Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio in Wash­ing­ton, where dis­cus­sions fo­cused on deep­en­ing co­op­er­a­tion and ad­vanc­ing mu­tu­al in­ter­ests.