For­mer min­is­ter of For­eign and Cari­com Af­fairs Dr Amery Browne has crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s re­sponse to the es­ca­lat­ing con­flict in the Mid­dle East, say­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go has de­part­ed from its tra­di­tion­al for­eign pol­i­cy prin­ci­ples.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Browne ad­dressed the Gov­ern­ment’s state­ments fol­low­ing mil­i­tary ac­tion by the Unit­ed States against Iran and Iran’s re­tal­i­a­tion in the re­gion.

“What hap­pened in re­al­i­ty is they put out a state­ment ex­press­ing sup­port for the at­tack by the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca, they re­tract­ed the state­ment, and then they put out an­oth­er state­ment ex­press­ing sup­port for the mil­i­tary ac­tions of the Unit­ed States of Amer­i­ca,” Browne said.