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Trinidad and Tobago was requested not to attend South America's Energy Summit
Presidents of 12 South American nations in the Energy Summit
By Elio Ohep
Petroleumworld Trinidad & Tobago
Port Spain
Petroleumworldtt.com 04 22 07At the last minute, Trinidad and Tobago was requested not to attend the South America Energy Summit Power. Prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Patrick Manning, had to suspend the trip to attend the Power Summit that was celebrated in the island of Margarita, in Venezuela.
According to an official notice of the Trinidad government notice, emitted Monday, the Venezuelan Secretary of State sent a diplomatic note Sunday to Trinidad and Tobago, Foreign Minister Arnold Piggott, in which he indicates that "the authorities of Venezuela did not manage to finalize the suitable adjustments successful so that Trinidad and Tobago attends the Power Summit".
An official source source told Petroleumworld that the cancellation of PM visit was due to the The Secretariat of the Summit that decided that the Summit was only for head of state.
Manning was invited personally by the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chávez, the Summit organizer during a visit to Venezuela the last month, in which they signed a treaty frame on unification of hydrocarbon deposits to explore and to operate jointly the gas outside coast.
Chávez on televised transmission of the dignitaries meeting during the visit from Manning to Venezuela said " the prime minister showed his interest to participate to us in the South American Summit and we, like country host, invited it to share with the South American colleagues the subject of the energy".
At a question by Petroleumworld this Tuesday when finalizing the summit on the absence of Manning in the event, Chávez responded: "To knowing", shrinking of shoulders.
Chávez announced that it would visit Trinidad and Tobago in the next months to sign the definitive agreements of the unification of hydrocarbons fields.
Manning described the trip as "vital" for the interests of Trinidad and Tobago.
Trinidad and Tobago is the main gas producer in South America and provides 75% of the liquid natural gas imports of the United States.
- Elio Ohep, editor@petroleumworld, 58 412 996 3730.
Petroleumworld, April 22, 2007
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