OPM SAYS TALKS BETWEEN YOUNG & RUBIO 'PRODUCTIVE

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Productive.  That's how the Office of the Prime Minister is describing the talks between this country's Prime Minister and the U.S. Secretary of State in Jamaica on Wednesday.  And while there was no mention of the deal for the supply of gas from Venezuela to this country, the OPM said the issue of energy was among the matters discussed.  Juhel Browne reports.

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00:00In a statement on Wednesday, the Office of the Prime Minister said the bilateral meeting

00:04between the delegations led by Prime Minister Stuart Young and U.S. Secretary of State Marco

00:10Rubio focused on several issues of mutual interest, including national security, trade

00:16and energy.

00:17The discussions were described as productive, with both parties emphasizing the importance

00:22of the relationship between both countries and pledging to deepen ties.

00:28The OPM offered no further details, such as whether the deal for the supply of natural

00:32gas from Venezuela to Trinidad and Tobago was specifically discussed.

00:37That deal was advanced via the lifting of certain sanctions against Venezuela, while

00:42Joe Biden was the U.S. President.

00:45Before the bilateral meeting on Wednesday, Secretary of State Rubio issued a statement

00:49posted on the U.S. State Department's Facebook page reiterating a new policy of the administration

00:54led by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, that

00:59the U.S. will not tolerate any third countries or their oil companies producing, extracting

01:05or exporting oil and oil-related products with the Maduro regime in Venezuela.

01:11The OPM said Prime Minister Young will provide further details on his meeting with Secretary

01:15of State Rubio at Thursday's post-Cabinet media briefing in Port of Spain.

01:20The U.S. Secretary of State also met on Wednesday with Jamaica's Prime Minister, Andrew Olness,

01:26and was scheduled to hold bilateral talks with the Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley.

01:32During Prime Minister Young's trip to Jamaica, Public Utilities Minister Colm Imbert served

01:36as Acting Prime Minister.

01:38Prime Minister Young was accompanied by Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr. Amory Brown.

01:43Jule Brown, TV6 News.

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