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Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar is urging the country to keep calm as she has no information to suggest that a war is brewing between Venezuela and the United States.

She was responding to questions raised by our reporter Cindy Raghubar-Teekersingh, during a walk-through of the National Recruitment Drive in Couva on Thursday afternoon.
Transcript
00:00There is growing concern locally that the U.S. deployment of military assets in the Southern
00:06Caribbean Sea and subsequent mass fatality airstrikes of manned vessels could quickly
00:12escalate into a full-scale war between the U.S. and Venezuela. The U.S. President Donald Trump
00:18has said their presence in the region is aimed at confronting drug trafficking and he's since
00:25signaled the possibility of land strikes in Venezuela, while international reports state
00:31that Maduro is boasting of having thousands of Russian anti-aircraft missiles on standby.
00:38But Prime Minister Kamala Passat-Bissessa is asking the country to keep calm
00:42as she has no information to suggest a war is on the horizon.
00:48Ma'am, I think there are some persons who are just fear-mongering, hysteria, fear-mongering.
00:53I assure you to be calm. If and when we know more, we will let you know. We'll keep you
00:59informed of what is happening. I have no information of a war. I have no information
01:03on missiles landing in Venezuela. Again, we are speculating and driving. There's some
01:08just determined which fear-mongering and hysteria. Please be calm. My name is Kamala. Be calm.
01:16Amid growing tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela, TNT is caught in the middle,
01:22not just geographically, but politically as well. Prime Minister Passat-Bissessa has publicly
01:28supported the Trump administration's fight against drug cartels in this region, saying
01:33a collective effort is needed to combat transnational crime, which significantly affects TNT.
01:40Meanwhile, responding to reports that Venezuela's Vice President Delce Rodriguez recently said
01:46she is being let off a cliff by the U.S. in relation to the drug and gas deal. Passat-Bissessa says
01:53she has not had any official correspondence in this regard from Venezuelan officials.
01:58I think we are going up in the sky. We are going uphill. I have no comments. I have no official
02:07communication from Madam Delce or from the Venezuelan government. And I will not comment on something
02:15that I have no official communication about. I said, here they said, I will not engage in a
02:21conflict for that. I am doing the best I can. I was elected by the electorate. We are all
02:25doing the best we can to uplift her in Atlanta and Tobago. And I will continue to sue too.
02:29Cindy Raguba, Tika Singh, TV6 News.
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