The State Department's April 2002 FY2003 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations reported that Excess Defense Articles for Trinidad and Tobago would be used "to support CARICOM’s [Caribbean Community] role as a stabilizing force in the Caribbean through active involvement in peacekeeping operations, search-and-rescue missions, disaster relief, and counternarcotics operations. EDA will also aid in enhancing interoperability in U.S.-Caribbean joint exercises."¹

The February 2005 Congressional Presentation was more concise, indicating that EDA for Trinidad and Tobago will be used to "enhance the TTDF’s peacekeeping, search-and-rescue, disaster relief, and counternarcotics capabilities." [²]

2001 | 1998 | 2000

2001:³
(all amounts in dollars)

2000:⁴
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1998:⁵
(all amounts in dollars)

Source:

¹ United States, Department of State, FY 2003 Congressional Budget Justification for Foreign Operations (Washington, DC: Department of State, April 15, 2002) <http://www.state.gov/m/rm/rls/cbj/2003/>.

² United States, Department of State, Office of Resources, Plans and Policy, Congressional Presentation for Foreign Operations, Fiscal Year 2006 (Washington: February 2005) <http://www.state.gov/m/rm/rls/cbj/2006/>.

³ United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles online database <http://www.dsca.osd.mil/home/excess_defense_articles_bbs.htm>.

⁴ United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles online database <http://www.dsca.osd.mil/home/excess_defense_articles_bbs.htm>.

⁵ United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles Furnished Foreign Countries Under Section 516 of The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, As Amended (Washington: July 1999).

United States, Department of Defense, Defense Security Cooperation Agency, Excess Defense Articles online database <http://www.dsca.osd.mil/home/excess_defense_articles_bbs.htm>