{"id":4279,"date":"2010-10-30T03:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2010-10-30T03:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T23:10:00","slug":"noti2847","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti2847\/","title":{"rendered":"President Fern\u00e1ndez Receives Guatemalan President \u00c1lvaro Colom"},"content":{"rendered":"



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President Fern\u00e1ndez Receives Guatemalan President \u00c1lvaro Colom <\/STRONG>
Santo Domingo, 10\/28\/2010<\/SPAN><\/P>
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D<\/SPAN>ominican President, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, received his Guatemalan counterpart, \u00c1lvaro Colom, with whom he discussed several topics of interest such as regional security, climate change and the situation facing Haiti as it deals with a cholera outbreak. Colom recognized the Dominican leader as the president who has done the most to help Haiti in its time of need. <\/P>
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The Guatemalan President said that commercial relations between his country and the Dominican Republic are very good and that they could very well increase, according to the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity.<\/P>
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 \u201cI believe that President Fern\u00e1ndez has been constant in his support of Haiti,\u201d the Guatemalan President told reporters after his meeting with President Fern\u00e1ndez in the National Palace. <\/P>
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The Guatemalan President said that commercial relations between his country and the Dominican Republic are very good and that they could very well increase, according to the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity.<\/P>
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Nevertheless, he recognized that Guatemala has only a few products to offer as compared to the DR, \u201cwe can\u2019t really compete as we only have a few products and we have different economic structure which keeps us from being involved.\u201d<\/P>
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President Colom was impressed by the beauty of the Dominican beaches. \u201cYou have gorgeous beaches here and we do too but yours are out of this world.\u201d<\/P>
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In relation to Haiti, he said that all countries are obliged to support for this nation especially considering how much the Haitian people have suffered and for so many months since the earthquake.<\/P>
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He referred to the current serious problem facing Haiti, the recent cholera outbreak \u201cespecially in view of the overcrowding of people made homeless by the January 12 earthquake which can cause all manner of epidemics.\u201d

President Colom said that although they did not talk about the Central American and Caribbean Free Trade Agreement in his meeting with President Fern\u00e1ndez, he was certain there would be a solution to the differences that exist between the Dominican Republic and several Central American nations over customs duties.
\u201cFortunately we have good relationships among the various governments and this will be dealt with by the Economy Ministers and I am sure there will be a solution,\u201d said Colom.<\/P>
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President Fern\u00e1ndez Receives Guatemalan President \u00c1lvaro Colom Santo Domingo, 10\/28\/2010 Dominican President, Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, received his Guatemalan counterpart, \u00c1lvaro Colom, with whom he discussed several topics of interest such as regional security, climate change and the situation facing Haiti as it deals with a cholera outbreak. Colom recognized the Dominican leader as the president who … Continue reading “President Fern\u00e1ndez Receives Guatemalan President \u00c1lvaro Colom”<\/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-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279"}],"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=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}