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For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sean Sobers says the Gov­ern­ment has al­ready as­sist­ed at least three Trinidad and To­ba­go na­tion­als seek­ing to leave parts of the Mid­dle East af­fect­ed by the on­go­ing con­flict in­volv­ing the Unit­ed States, Is­rael and Iran.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Sobers said while sev­er­al na­tion­als have reached out for guid­ance, on­ly a small num­ber have re­quired di­rect evac­u­a­tion as­sis­tance so far.

“I think to date, we’ve fa­cil­i­tat­ed maybe about two or three per­sons. So that’s what I’m say­ing. It’s not a large amount, be­cause the ma­jor­i­ty of them ac­tu­al­ly live and work in the re­gion. So they just re­al­ly want­ed to know that Trinidad and To­ba­go was there… this ad­min­is­tra­tion was there for them, and we are,” Sobers said.