Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar says her gov­ern­ment is not af­ter regime change in Venezuela.

The PM re­turned home last night from her trip to the Unit­ed States for the Unit­ed Na­tions Gen­er­al As­sem­bly in New York, and where she al­so trav­elled to Wash­ing­ton D.C. to meet with U.S. Sec­re­tary of State Mar­co Ru­bio.

All Cab­i­net min­is­ters showed up at the air­port to wel­come the Prime Min­is­ter home.

How­ev­er, the PM re­turns home as the New York Times re­ports that top aides to Pres­i­dent Trump are push­ing for the oust­ing of Nico­las Maduro in Venezuela.

When Guardian Me­dia asked the Prime Min­is­ter about this, she stat­ed that regime change in Venezuela is not on her gov­ern­ment’s agen­da.

“There has been no con­ver­sa­tion about regime change,” the PM as­sert­ed. “Our con­cern has al­ways been to see how we’ll deal with the crim­i­nals—the nar­co traf­fick­ers, the hu­man traf­fick­ers, the gun run­ners—that has been my con­cern.”

“We can’t con­tin­ue to do things the same way, every day. We can’t con­tin­ue to move back­wards and don’t go for­ward. We’ve done that for years and Trinidad has be­come num­ber six in the world—the num­ber six most mur­der­ous coun­try in the world,” she point­ed out.

The PM stat­ed: “I think this part­ner­ship with the U.S. … it is not about regime change for us here in Trinidad and To­ba­go. It is about se­cur­ing [our] safe­ty … and se­cu­ri­ty.”

And the PM al­so said she's con­fi­dent both T&T and Venezuela will be able to reach an agree­ment on the Drag­on Gas deal.

“We will work the de­tails out and we’ll share them with you,” the PM said.

“The projects ben­e­fit Venezuela,” she said. “They ben­e­fit the Unit­ed States, and they ben­e­fit Trinidad and To­ba­go. I am con­fi­dent we’ll be able to work things out.”

“It might take a few more days, maybe a lit­tle more time,” the PM not­ed, adding, “but I am con­fi­dent that to­geth­er, all part­ners in this—Venezuela, Trinidad and To­ba­go, and the Unit­ed States—will all ben­e­fit. So, we look for­ward to good times.”

Trinidad and To­ba­go has se­cured the Unit­ed States' sup­port for an OFAC li­cence some five months af­ter it was re­voked.