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At a news conference on Tuesday, Prime Minister Stuart Young said the decision of the US Department of Treasury to revoke T&T’s specific licences to undertake the development of the Dragon and Cocuina-Manakin gas fields “does not come necessarily as a surprise, seeing how volatile things are, not only with respect to the policy with Venezuela, but what we are seeing with the application of tariffs.”
Mr Young told the televised news conference that the Government that he leads is going to make an application to the US Government to see if the revocation of the licences can be amended. He also said he has reached out to Mauricio Claver-Carone, the US special envoy to Latin America, and that a request was put in to US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, for a telephone call.
“Based on the personal conversations and discussions that I have managed to have with the two gentlemen, as well as some others that we are pursuing, I expect that we will be given an audience. I expect that we will be given the opportunity to make our case.
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