Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Sean Sobers met with Unit­ed States As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary of War Joseph Hu­mire at the De­part­ment of War in Wash­ing­ton D.C. on Thurs­day as Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed States dis­cussed de­fence and se­cu­ri­ty co­op­er­a­tion.

Sobers was ac­com­pa­nied by Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary and Head of the For­eign Ser­vice Ran­dall Karim dur­ing the meet­ing at the Pen­ta­gon.

Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment, dis­cus­sions fo­cused on strength­en­ing bi­lat­er­al co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the Unit­ed States and Trinidad and To­ba­go, par­tic­u­lar­ly on de­fence and se­cu­ri­ty mat­ters.