Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Dr. Amery Browne, met with Ravi Dols­ingh, Hon­orary Con­sul Gen­er­al of Den­mark to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go on 8thAu­gust, 2023 at the Min­istry’s head­quar­ters.

Dis­cus­sions at the meet­ing fo­cused on pos­si­ble ar­eas of co­op­er­a­tion be­tween the T&T and Den­mark. Min­is­ter Browne in­di­cat­ed that the time was right to max­imise the po­ten­tial for co­op­er­a­tion be­tween T&T and Den­mark. Delv­ing in­to the prospec­tive agen­da for the de­vel­op­ment of bi­lat­er­al re­la­tions be­tween the two coun­tries, the Min­is­ter rec­om­mend­ed the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of a num­ber of tar­get ar­eas that could be de­vel­oped in the short term.

Talks dur­ing the meet­ing piv­ot­ed on po­ten­tial ex­changes in har­ness­ing wind and so­lar pow­er and the po­ten­tial for in­come gen­er­a­tion and pro­mot­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go as a man­u­fac­tur­ing cen­tre for re­new­able en­er­gy com­po­nents for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean.

In ad­di­tion to re­new­able tech­nolo­gies, Min­is­ter Browne rec­om­mend­ed that dis­cus­sions be opened on the in­te­gra­tion be­tween tech­nol­o­gy and agri­cul­ture giv­en Den­mark’s pro­fi­cien­cy in the use of smart tech­nolo­gies in this area.

The meet­ing end­ed cor­dial­ly with both Min­is­ter Browne and Hon­orary Con­sul Dols­ingh com­mit­ting to pave the way for­ward for strength­en­ing re­la­tions be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go and Den­mark.