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Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says face-to-face talks are ex­pect­ed to take place with the Unit­ed States lat­er this month, af­ter the US ac­knowl­edged her “pub­lic sup­port” of its mil­i­tary op­er­a­tions.

Yes­ter­day, the US State De­part­ment re­leased de­tails of a call be­tween Deputy Sec­re­tary of State Christo­pher Lan­dau and Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Ac­cord­ing to the state­ment, Lan­dau reaf­firmed the strength of the US–Trinidad and To­ba­go part­ner­ship, de­scrib­ing the coun­try as a “strong US part­ner in the Caribbean.”