Balgobin-Maharaj warns T&T against aligning too closely with Trump

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An ac­tivist says Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and her min­is­ters should choose their words care­ful­ly when dis­cussing the coun­try’s re­la­tion­ship with the Unit­ed States, par­tic­u­lar­ly in re­sponse to the re­sults of a de­mo­c­ra­t­ic elec­tion in a sov­er­eign na­tion.

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“While I’m sure the peo­ple of T&T ben­e­fit tremen­dous­ly from our re­la­tion­ship with the US, align­ing too close­ly with Don­ald Trump at a time when his vot­er base, and even mem­bers of his con­gres­sion­al cau­cus, ap­pear to be aban­don­ing him is a diplo­mat­ic mis­step. It could hurt T&T’s re­la­tions not on­ly with a fu­ture US ad­min­is­tra­tion, but al­so with our oth­er al­lies re­gion­al­ly and in­ter­na­tion­al­ly in the long run,” Ravi Bal­go­b­in-Ma­haraj said yes­ter­day.