Trinidad and To­ba­go ab­stained from a Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty (CARI­COM) for­eign af­fairs state­ment con­demn­ing on­go­ing mea­sures against Cu­ba and warn­ing against any mil­i­tary ag­gres­sion to­ward the is­land.

In a state­ment is­sued by the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty Coun­cil for For­eign and Com­mu­ni­ty Re­la­tions (COF­COR), the re­gion­al body ex­pressed con­cern over what it de­scribed as in­ten­si­fy­ing eco­nom­ic, com­mer­cial and fi­nan­cial mea­sures im­posed on Cu­ba, say­ing they had com­pound­ed the ef­fects of the long-stand­ing em­bar­go and con­tributed to wors­en­ing hard­ship for the Cuban peo­ple.

COF­COR al­so warned that the mount­ing dif­fi­cul­ties in Cu­ba were af­fect­ing CARI­COM na­tion­als study­ing and liv­ing there.