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AS he faced intense questioning on the Government’s apparent inability to seek clarity from US authorities on the possibility that Trinidad and Tobago nationals were among those who perished during the US military strikes at sea, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sean Sobers said he will reach out to the Minister of Homeland Security and the Commissioner of Police seeking their assistance for the families of the two missing men.

“These strikes are military intervention strikes or military strikes being conducted in pursuit of a military operation by the US. There’s information that the US will share, there’s information that they won’t share pursuant to a military operation, which is what this is.

“These are strikes that are being conducted in international waters. If these strikes occurred within national waters, then the US would have to share information with Trinidad and Tobago,” he said at yesterday’s post-Cabinet news conference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s.