Dr Lin­da Sobeh Ali, Am­bas­sador Des­ig­nate of the State of Pales­tine to Trinidad and To­ba­go, pre­sent­ed her cre­den­tials to Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo to­day at The Pres­i­dent’s House.

Fol­low­ing the cer­e­mo­ny, Dr Ali met with sev­er­al gov­ern­ment min­is­ters: Min­is­ter of Le­gal Af­fairs and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries Sad­dam Ho­sein; Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs, Sean Sobers; and Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary and Head of the For­eign Ser­vice, Ran­dall Karim.

Trinidad and To­ba­go for­mal­ly recog­nised the State of Pales­tine on May 2, 2024, un­der the for­mer PNM ad­min­is­tra­tion and es­tab­lished diplo­mat­ic re­la­tions in Sep­tem­ber 2024.

The move re­in­forced this coun­try’s sup­port for a two-state so­lu­tion and its long­stand­ing ad­vo­ca­cy for Pales­tin­ian rights at the Unit­ed Na­tions.

Of­fi­cials said the es­tab­lish­ment of diplo­mat­ic ties re­flects Trinidad and To­ba­go’s on­go­ing com­mit­ment to in­ter­na­tion­al peace, se­cu­ri­ty, and hu­man­i­tar­i­an prin­ci­ples.

The Min­istry of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs de­scribed the am­bas­sador’s ar­rival as “a mo­men­tous oc­ca­sion", as they of­fi­cial­ly wel­comed the new Am­bas­sador of the State of Pales­tine to the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The Min­istry said:

“We look for­ward to a fruit­ful and pro­duc­tive re­la­tion­ship with Her Ex­cel­len­cy and the State of Pales­tine.”

The re­lease not­ed that Am­bas­sador Ali was “re­ceived by Min­is­ter of For­eign and CARI­COM Af­fairs Sean Sobers and Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary Ran­dall Karim dur­ing an in­tro­duc­to­ry cour­tesy call”, pro­vid­ing “an op­por­tu­ni­ty to deep­en the bonds of friend­ship and co­op­er­a­tion be­tween our na­tions.”

Min­is­ter Sobers al­so in­tro­duced Am­bas­sador Ali to Min­is­ter Ho­sein.