The Secretary-General met with H.E. Mrs. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, in the margins of the 36th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Barbados.

The Secretary-General congratulated Trinidad and Tobago on producing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) progress report, and welcomed the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Doha Amendment to the Kyoto Protocol.

The Secretary-General and the Prime Minister also discussed issues concerning climate change, violence against women and the prevalence of HIV in the country.