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The US De­part­ment of State has con­firmed that Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio will dis­cuss a com­mit­ment to de­vel­op­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go’s gas pro­duc­tion for Caribbean en­er­gy se­cu­ri­ty dur­ing dis­cus­sions with Cari­com lead­ers in Kingston, Ja­maica to­day.

How­ev­er, Ru­bio will tell Caribbean lead­ers that the US will not sup­port any fur­ther re­gion­al de­pen­den­cy on Venezuela.

The con­fir­ma­tion came dur­ing a US State De­part­ment brief­ing in Wash­ing­ton DC, yes­ter­day, ahead of Ru­bio’s trip to the re­gion, which will al­so in­clude vis­its to Guyana and Suri­name.