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TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO SIGNS CONVENTION AGAINST TERRORISM

  October 2, 2002

Trinidad and Tobago today became the thirty-second state of the Americas to sign the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism, an Organization of American States treaty adopted at the General Assembly in Barbados General Assembly in Barbados last June.

Signing for the government, the Interim Representative at the Trinidad and Tobago Permanent Mission to the OAS, Mr. Mackisack Logie, said the move represented "concrete proof of our commitment to join the Hemisphere in the fight against terrorism."

Ambassador Luigi Einaudi, the Assistant Secretary General, signing on behalf of the OAS, commended the Caribbean nation's important role in the OAS and welcomed its signing on to the anti-terrorism treaty as indication that Trinidad is "disciplined in the struggle against terrorism in the Hemisphere."

The Assistant Secretary General noted as well that Trinidad and Tobago was an active participant in the negotiation of the OAS treaty, and has always been an active and important member of the inter-American system.

Reference: E-196/02