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Dominican and Haitian Presidents Meet and Agree to Plan to Mitigate Damaging Effects of the Earthquake <\/STRONG><\/P> <\/STRONG>D<\/SPAN>ominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, Haitian President Ren\u00e9 Preval and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive met on Thursday and agreed to an \u201cimmediate response\u201d plan that will help mitigate the damage caused by the earthquake that shook this small nation. <\/SPAN><\/P> The meeting between the leaders took place at the MINUSTAH headquarters and was also attended by Brazil\u2019s Defense Minister Wilson Jobin.<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN><\/P> The agreement seeks to prioritize the reestablishment of telecommunications, to rescue and bury those who have died under the rubble of damaged buildings, re-establish electrical power and drinking water such as the joint plan between MINUSTAH and the Dominican military which is trained in maintaining order as the country braces to receive and distribute international aid, according to the President\u2019s Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/STRONG><\/SPAN><\/P> President Fern\u00e1ndez said that for the recovery of the communications systems they will coordinate their efforts with the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (INDOTEL in Spanish) and the Dominican Corporation of State Electrical Companies with the goal of reestablishing electrical power. Meanwhile, rescuers are using heavy equipment to dig through the debris in an effort to find survivors.<\/SPAN> <\/P> The Dominican President said that, as a preventative measure over the coming days, authorities intend to undertake a vaccination program through the Public Health Ministry with the idea of avoiding any outbreaks of epidemics.<\/SPAN> <\/P> The meeting between the leaders took place at the MINUSTAH headquarters and was also attended by Brazil\u2019s Defense Minister Wilson Jobin.<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN><\/P> President Preval thanked President Fern\u00e1ndez for the support he has shown especially the fact that the Dominican leader made an effort to travel to Haiti following the devastating earthquake, adding that Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s visit was a clear demonstration of the great friendship on the part of the Dominican leader toward Haiti and the effort being made to help mitigate the devastation facing the country today. <\/SPAN> <\/P> The Haitian leader noted that these gestures of friendship and solidarity show that both nations that comprise the Island of Hispaniola should work together for a better future for their citizens. <\/SPAN><\/P> \u201cWe stand by the Haitian people in their time of tragedy which we know they will overcome,\u201d President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez said then embraced his Haitian counterpart, Ren\u00e9 Preval.<\/SPAN> <\/SPAN><\/P> Other government officials present at the visit included the Minister of Public Works, V\u00edctor D\u00edaz R\u00faa; the Minister of Health, Bautista Rojas G\u00f3mez; the Director of the Office of Supervisor Engineers of Public Works, F\u00e9lix Bautista; the directors of the Corporation of Aqueducts and Sewers of Santo Domingo (CAASD), Ram\u00f3n Rivas and from Santiago (CORAASAN), Hamlet Ota\u00f1ez; the Director of the President\u2019s Press Office Rafael Nu\u00f1ez, and Mariano Germ\u00e1n, Director of the National Institute of Potable Water (INAPA) among others. <\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/P> <\/SPAN> <\/P> <\/P> Dominican and Haitian Presidents Meet and Agree to Plan to Mitigate Damaging Effects of the Earthquake Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, Haitian President Ren\u00e9 Preval and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive met on Thursday and agreed to an \u201cimmediate response\u201d plan that will help mitigate the damage caused by the earthquake that shook this small nation. … Continue reading “Dominican and Haitian Presidents Meet and Agree to Plan to Mitigate Damaging Effects of the Earthquake”<\/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-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583"}],"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=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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