With the purpose of strengthening ties of friendship, cooperation and coordination with the representatives of its Member States, the Inter-American Defense Board received, on July 26, the visit of Colonel Collin Steadson Millington, Delegate of Trinidad and Tobago to the organization, accompanied by Captain Kester Weekes.
Independent since 1962 and recognized for its natural beauty and strong cultural heritage, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, located northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada, in the Lesser Antilles. It also shares maritime borders with Barbados to the northeast and Guyana to the southeast. The country covers an area of 5,128 square kilometers (1,979 sq mi) and consists of two main islands, Trinidad and Tobago, and 21 smaller islands.
The oldest multilateral defense organization in the world, created during World War II, the IADB is a member entity of the OAS and its main objective is to provide, to it and its member states, technical advisory services and education in military and of defense in the hemisphere, in order to contribute to compliance with the OAS Charter in its four pillars: Democracy, Human Rights, Security and Development, with a main focus on the Security pillar.
In the historic and traditional facilities of Casa do Soldado, in Washington-DC, the visitors were received by Brigadier General Marco Antonio Álvarez Reyes (Mexico), President of the Council of Delegates of the IADB, and by Brigadier Major Flávio Luiz de Oliveira Pinto (Brazil), Director General of the Secretariat, on the occasion accompanied by Colonel Matthew Heim (USA), Director of the Undersecretary of Services and Advisory.
