00:00My question today to Mr. Kamala Prasad, Mr. Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago,
00:05when you say to Washington that we support your policy, which policy are you supporting?
00:11Because there's a whole plethora of policies that are now coming to the fore,
00:16requiring a position from Trinidad and Tobago.
00:19Former Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowdy, as he spoke with members of the media on Tuesday,
00:23the same day they dismantled the U.S. military radar, left Tobago on a U.S. military transport plane.
00:31We were right there in the firing line because that radar, which has now been picked up to be taken
00:37out,
00:38they said it was brought here for us to find people in the Mung and in the sea and so
00:44on.
00:45It was a piece of equipment on wheels. It was on wheels.
00:50Because it is to be mobile. Because you expect it to be a target when you use it.
00:57The government has said the U.S. radar was a temporary measure
01:00that was for real-time monitoring and surveillance of Trinidad and Tobago's A&C territory.
01:06Dr. Rowdy continued to express concern about the government's support
01:09of the recent U.S. military presence in the region
01:11as he drew comparisons to Iran's recent response to military attacks against it by the U.S. and Israel.
01:18Most of those countries didn't attack Iran.
01:24None of them had been seen and been called as combatants when Iran was being attacked.
01:30But when the battle started, Iran struck everybody.
01:36That is where the UNC government had placed Trinidad and Tobago.
01:42If the United States had to be so aggressive in actually carrying on a fight with Venezuela,
01:51where the Venezuelan military was engaged to respond and retaliate.
01:57Dr. Rowdy then made an apparent reference to U.S. forces having captured Venezuela's president,
02:02Nicolas Maduro, and his wife and flown them from Venezuela to the U.S.
02:06and what the U.S. maintains was a law enforcement exercise.
02:10Trinidad and Tobago was in the firing line.
02:13It is only good luck from God the Trini.
02:17Why they managed to settle what they came to Venezuela to settle
02:21and did not involve Venezuela retaliating the way Iran is retaliating now.
02:26The government had said that the U.S. radar, which had been in Tobago,
02:30was not for use in any action in Venezuela.
02:34Jewel Brown, TV6 News.
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