Unit­ed States Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio as­sured Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar of Wash­ing­ton’s con­tin­ued sup­port for Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Drag­on gas project, con­firm­ing that the U.S. will work to en­sure the pro­pos­al aligns with the Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol (OFAC) li­cence while lim­it­ing ben­e­fits to the Maduro ad­min­is­tra­tion in Venezuela.

The two lead­ers met to­day to re­view bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion, with en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty high on the agen­da.

Sec­re­tary Ru­bio ac­knowl­edged the sig­nif­i­cance of the Drag­on gas plan to Trinidad and To­ba­go’s eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty and re­gion­al sta­bil­i­ty, not­ing that U.S. sup­port will in­clude steps to safe­guard the project’s im­ple­men­ta­tion.