Kamla: I met with US State Dept officials
PRIME MINISTER Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday night pointed out that her decision to accept the resignation of Jack Warner as National Security Minister came after her meeting with US State Department officials. As she gave an account of the circumstances surrounding the resignation of Warner at the UNC’s Monday Night Forum at Penal Junction, the Prime Minister said, the decision came, “After careful scrutiny of all the facts.”
“After a careful, meticulous review of the facts brought before me, having just returned – you will remember I was in Washington and I met with the State Department there – and having come back from that visit and meeting with my colleagues, counter-balancing the interest of the Cabinet…having considered all of this I accepted the resignation of Minister Warner as Minister of National Security,” Persad-Bissessar said.
The Prime Minister, however, did not give any explicit details or make an explicit connection.
On Saturday, Persad-Bissessar deferred questions on the responses of US authorities to the Government’s queries on reports relating to Warner’s family to Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Dookeran. Dookeran said the US State Department had blanked a request for information citing standard policy