He spoke to the media following a church service at the Holy Trinity Cathedral to mark the 50th anniversary of bicameralism.
Ramlogan said, "If July 1990 was averted by pre-emptive action on the part of the government of the day, I would have regarded that as a success and likewise by priority of reasoning, I regard this as a success."
He said the Government will continue to stand by law enforcement officers.
"We continue to place our trust and confidence and faith and ability in the law enforcement agencies. No one, nothing is perfect, there's always room for improvement and we will continue to work with them and stand with them," he said.
Last Friday, Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley stated that an evaluation report discredited the entire assassination plot. However he did not say where he got the report or who write it.
Ramlogan insisted that he is not familiar with the report that Rowley has. "I am a member of the National Security Council. No such report was ever disclosed to the National Security Council," he said.
"An evaluation was done and it was presented to the honourable Prime Minister and the National Security Council. We went along with the advice in that report and the recommendations that were made by the law enforcement security agencies."
Ramlogan added that the Opposition Leader "is once again demonstrating that politics trumps national and public interests. The PM took him into her confidence and asked the police to share sensitive security information with him."
The AG said that gesture was not something that the PNM would have done.
"We were in Opposition for such a long time. There was never any such gesture on the part of the former administration and having done that the lack of reciprocity if he had something that was relevant, without bothering to share it with the PM. To do the statesmanlike thing obviously escaped him and that's why he can't be viewed as a leader-in-waiting for this country, ever," said Ramlogan.
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