PM, Beckles spar over T&T’s UN Security Council seat

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June 6, 2026

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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has hailed Trinidad and Tobago’s achievement of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) seat as a vote of confidence in T&T’s leadership, credibility and growing influence within the international community. However, Opposition Leader Pennelope Beckles has pointed out that T&T was also on the UNSC in 1985 due to the People’s National Movement government’s work.

Both faced off on the issue in the House of Representatives yesterday.

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