For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says Gov­ern­ment will act in the best in­ter­est of the pop­u­la­tion if any con­flict were ever to arise in the re­gion, but stressed that spec­u­la­tion about war or regime change has no ba­sis in the facts pre­sent­ed to Trinidad and To­ba­go.

He was re­spond­ing at to­day's me­dia brief­ing when asked what po­si­tion the coun­try would take if US mil­i­tary ac­tiv­i­ty in the South­ern Caribbean es­ca­lat­ed in­to a con­flict linked to Venezuela. Sobers said, “If it hap­pens, trust that your Gov­ern­ment will stand with you and we will make the best pos­si­ble de­ci­sion in the in­ter­est of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go. That is what I can say.”

Pressed on whether Trinidad and To­ba­go would sup­port any ac­tion that could lead to war, Sobers said the ques­tion “does not arise” and de­scribed it as con­jec­ture. He not­ed that the de­ploy­ment and move­ment of US ves­sels is en­tire­ly a mat­ter for the Unit­ed States.