Trinidad Foreign Minister Visits Europe

By: - December 11th, 2013

Above: Trinidad Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Trinidad Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran is currently in Europe for a series of conferences.

On Wednesday, he concludes a visit to the 98th Session of the Council of Ministers of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States in Brussels.

On Thursday, he will be attending the sixth Italy-Latin America and the Caribbean conference, which concludes on Friday.

The two trips follow a stop in Madrid on Monday at the invitation of the Embassy of Spain, focusing on the state of bilateral relations between the two countries.

Roodal Moonilal is acting as Foreign Minister during Dookeran’s absence.

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