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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of Com­merce says it is dis­ap­point­ed by the de­ci­sion of Venezue­lan Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez to end the En­er­gy Co­op­er­a­tion Frame­work Agree­ment signed on Feb­ru­ary 24, 2015, be­tween both coun­tries.

Venezuela said it may sus­pend gas agree­ments with Trinidad and To­ba­go as US mil­i­tary drills con­tin­ue in the Caribbean. Vice Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez claimed T&T is sid­ing with Wash­ing­ton’s “war plans,” ac­cus­ing Port of Spain of col­lab­o­rat­ing with the CIA on what she de­scribed as a “staged provo­ca­tion.”

The Cham­ber not­ed that the agree­ment specif­i­cal­ly stat­ed that “no pro­vi­sion of the agree­ment will af­fect the sov­er­eign rights of the two na­tions over their re­spec­tive ter­ri­to­ries, mar­itime zones and oth­er ge­o­graph­i­cal spaces un­der their sov­er­eign­ty and ju­ris­dic­tion,” and said it re­spects Venezuela’s de­ci­sion in this re­gard.