Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion, Eli Za­k­our, met with His Ex­cel­len­cy William Sid­ney Bush Howard, Am­bas­sador of the Re­pub­lic of Colom­bia to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, as part of ef­forts to strength­en the civ­il avi­a­tion sec­tor.

The dis­cus­sions fo­cused on strength­en­ing air trans­port co­op­er­a­tion be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Colom­bia, ex­plor­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for es­tab­lish­ing air ser­vices, and ad­vanc­ing tech­ni­cal col­lab­o­ra­tion in avi­a­tion safe­ty and reg­u­la­to­ry sys­tems.

The meet­ing ad­dressed frame­works for air ser­vices be­tween the two coun­tries and mech­a­nisms for co­op­er­a­tion among avi­a­tion au­thor­i­ties. Talks in­clud­ed mat­ters re­lat­ed to safe­ty over­sight, reg­u­la­to­ry align­ment and in­for­ma­tion ex­change.