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T<\/SPAN><\/SPAN>he First Lady of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez, was award a Gold Medal by the Italian government after being unanimously chosen by the Scientific Committee of the Pio Manz\u00fa International Research Center to receive the high honor. <\/P> Dr. Cede\u00f1o was presented with the award by Vittoria Saladino, an Italian government official at the P\u00edo Manz\u00fa International Conference. <\/P> Dr. Cede\u00f1o was presented with the award by Vittoria Saladino, an Italian government official at the P\u00edo Manz\u00fa International Conference. Mr. Saladino presented the award to Dr. Cede\u00f1o, who was attending the conference as guest of honor. The award was given \u201cfor her role in implementing national policies in support of the most vulnerable population in the Dominican Republic,\u201d according to the President\u2019s Office of Information, Press and Publicity. \u201cShe promotes social policies for her husband\u2019s administration, generating programs on public health, youth education, single mothers and families, promoting learning, reading and access to technology for low-income families,\u201d P\u00edo Center officials stated in a document read during the ceremony. The officials expressed their admiration for the First Lady of the Republic \u201cfor her decisive support for development in the country; she shows an exceptional ability in the social agenda and identifying priorities to construct a prosperous and solid future for Dominicans.\u201d The First Lady was named Special Ambassador of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a role through which she has committed to combat malnutrition, hunger and poverty. Since 1969 the P\u00edo Manz\u00fa Center has undertaken international cooperation activities. The award ceremony was held in the Novelli Theater in Rimini Province, and was attended by important international leaders such as Suzanne Mubarak, the First Lady of Egypt; Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germany\u2019s Minister of Economy; Lubna Al Qasimi, the Minister of Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates; and Shashi Tharoor, India\u2019s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. Also, Martin Hirsch, commissioner of youth and active solidarity against poverty; Aimee Mullins, a North American athlete, model and actress; and Aldo Kaslowski, president of TUSAID International, the confederation of Turkish industries and businesses and president of the confederation of Italians entrepreneurs (CIIIM) in Europe, Asia, and the Mediterranean. <\/P> First Lady of the Republic Receives Italian Gold Medal The First Lady of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Margarita Cede\u00f1o de Fern\u00e1ndez, was award a Gold Medal by the Italian government after being unanimously chosen by the Scientific Committee of the Pio Manz\u00fa International Research Center to receive the high honor. Dr. Cede\u00f1o was presented with … Continue reading “First Lady of the Republic Receives Italian Gold Medal”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: November 05, 2009<\/EM><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"