The new Venezue­lan Am­bas­sador has thanked Trinidad and To­ba­go for its sup­port of his coun­try, es­pe­cial­ly over the last few years.

His Ex­cel­len­cy Ál­varo En­rique Cordero, the new Am­bas­sador Ex­tra­or­di­nary and Plenipo­ten­tiary of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, met with Sen­a­tor Dr Amery Browne, Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, at the Min­istry’s of­fices in St Clair, on Fri­day 13 May 2022.

“Am­bas­sador Sánchez utilised the op­por­tu­ni­ty to ex­press sin­cere grat­i­tude to Trinidad and To­ba­go for its sup­port for the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela, un­der­scor­ing the strong po­si­tion tak­en by the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go and CARI­COM against at­tempts to pro­mote the ex­clu­sion of the Bo­li­var­i­an Re­pub­lic of Venezuela from the world stage,” said a state­ment from the For­eign Min­istry.

It added: “Dur­ing the cor­dial ex­change, Min­is­ter Browne high­light­ed the very good cul­tur­al and peo­ple-to-peo­ple re­la­tions be­tween both coun­tries, the in­creas­ing im­por­tance of Span­ish for en­hanc­ing the re­la­tion­ship of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go with the wider Latin Amer­i­can re­gion and the im­por­tance of con­tin­ued en­er­gy co­op­er­a­tion.” 

Am­bas­sador Sánchez had pre­sent­ed his Let­ters of Cre­dence to Pres­i­dent Paula-Mae Weekes ORTT, on 4th May 2022, while Min­is­ter Browne was on of­fi­cial over­seas trav­el.  Last Fri­day was the first op­por­tu­ni­ty for the Min­is­ter and Am­bas­sador to meet at the Min­istry, the re­lease ex­plained.