Trinidad_and_Tobago–Yugoslavia_relations

Trinidad and Tobago–Yugoslavia relations

Trinidad and Tobago–Yugoslavia relations

Bilateral relations

Trinidad and Tobago–Yugoslavia relations were historical foreign relations between Caribbean island nation of Trinidad and Tobago and now split-up Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

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Trinidad and Tobago and Yugoslavia

Yugoslav diplomats were invite to the Trinidad and Tobago's independence ceremony in 1962 and two countries established formal bilateral relations in 1965.[1] The first visit to Yugoslavia by the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Eric Williams happened a couple of months before the official relations were established. Williams stayed in Yugoslavia between 8 and 10 April 1965 where he met President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito on Brijuni islands in the Socialist Republic of Croatia.[2] Yugoslav trade mission led by the advisor at the Embassy of Yugoslavia in Washington D.C. visited Trinidad and Tobago between 25 and 31 May 1965 where they met Prime Minister Eric Williams, the Governor of Trinidad Sir Werner Boos and other dignitaries.[2] Following the breakup of Yugoslavia and Yugoslav Wars judge Melville Baird from Trinidad and Tobago served at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.[3]

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References

  1. [1]
    Glassner, Martin Ira (1970). "The Foreign Relations of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, 1960-1965". Caribbean Studies (UPR). 10 (3): 116–153. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  2. [2]
    Milutin Tomanović, ed. (1965). Hronika međunarodnih događaja 1964. Institute of International Politics and Economics. p. 290 and 325.
  3. [3]
    "Ad Litem Judge Baird Sworn In". International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. 15 December 2008. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
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