Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Dr. Amery Browne met with new­ly ap­point­ed Mex­i­can Am­bas­sador Vic­tor Hugo Morales Mélen­dez at the Min­istry’s of­fices at Pra­da Street, St. Clair yes­ter­day.  Dur­ing the meet­ing, Min­is­ter Browne dis­cussed col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween both coun­tries in mul­ti­ple ar­eas such as tourism, se­cu­ri­ty, trade and in­vest­ment, cul­ture and tech­ni­cal co­op­er­a­tion.

The fol­low­ing is a press re­lease from the Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs:

Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable Dr. Amery Browne, Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, met with His Ex­cel­len­cy Vic­tor Hugo Morales Mélen­dez, Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary of the Unit­ed Mex­i­can States to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, on Tues­day, Ju­ly 19, 2022, at the Min­istry’s of­fices at Pra­da Street, St. Clair. 

Min­is­ter Browne wel­comed to Am­bas­sador Mélen­dez and ac­knowl­edged the warm and friend­ly ties be­tween the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Unit­ed Mex­i­can States. Dur­ing the meet­ing, they dis­cussed col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween both coun­tries in mul­ti­ple ar­eas such as tourism, se­cu­ri­ty, trade and in­vest­ment, cul­ture and tech­ni­cal co­op­er­a­tion. 

Dis­cus­sions al­so fo­cused on the 60th an­niver­sary of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s in­de­pen­dence, the forth­com­ing Na­tion­al Day cel­e­bra­tion of the Unit­ed Mex­i­can States and a pro­posed vis­it to Port of Spain of a Mex­i­can ves­sel lat­er this year. 

Min­is­ter Browne al­so not­ed the pro­posed project be­tween The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies, St. Au­gus­tine Cam­pus, the Min­istry of For­eign Af­fairs of Mex­i­co and the Mex­i­can Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of Sta­tis­tics and Ge­og­ra­phy, which is ex­pect­ed to fa­cil­i­tate, in­ter alia, co­op­er­a­tion re­lat­ed to re­search on space and the mit­i­ga­tion of cli­mate change and nat­ur­al dis­as­ters. Both par­ties reaf­firmed their com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue work­ing to strength­en ties that would re­dound to the ben­e­fit of the two coun­tries and their peo­ple.