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Yzaguirre. During the one-hour courtesy visit to President Fernandez\u2019s office, the US officials reiterated Washington\u2019s support for the recommended reforms on transparency under the Participative Anti-Corruption Initiative (IPAC).<\/P><br \/>\n<P class=quote style=\"BORDER-TOP: #cccccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #cccccc 1px solid; WIDTH: 30%; BORDER-BOTTOM: #cccccc 1px solid; FLOAT: right; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; PADDING-TOP: 8px; PADDING-LEFT: 8px; MARGIN: 20px; BORDER-LEFT: #cccccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 8px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: whitesmoke\">They congratulated the President for his leadership in strengthening democracy in the Dominican Republic, as reported by the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><BR>The US official spoke with President Fern\u00e1ndez about continuing US support for the Dominican government\u2019s effort to reach the country\u2019s development goals.<BR><BR>They congratulated the President for his leadership in strengthening democracy in the Dominican Republic, as reported by the Presidential Office of Information, Press and Publicity. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Feierstein led the American inter-agency delegation participating in the 2nd Inter-American Meeting of Ministers and Sustainable Development Leaders before the Organization of American States (OAS), held in the Dominican Republic on November 17-19.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Others at the meeting with the President included Christopher A. Lambert, from the US Mission and James Watson, interim Director of USAID.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><EM>CHOLERA<\/EM><\/P><br \/>\n<P>The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Center for Disease Control will continue working with Dominican authorities to stop the spread of cholera among the population. \u201cFrom the moment a patient with cholera is detected in the Dominican Republic, the country is prepared to take action. The Dominican government is leading the response against the spread of cholera and has concentrated its efforts to prevent it and to confront the cases that may arise,\u201d according to a press release distributed by the US Embassy in the DR.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>As such, the USAID and the Center for Disease Control will continue supporting Dominican authorities in their response efforts and will facilitate any additional assistance that might be required by the government. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>Currently the USAID is advising the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance in its preventative media campaign, infection control and the promotion of good hygiene. <\/P><br \/>\n<P><IMG class=thinborderfloat1 border=0 alt=\"US Officials Reiterate American Support for Dominican Development  \" src=\"\/Portal\/noticias\/funcioncolera_500.jpg\" width=500><BR><BR><BR><BR><\/P><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD vAlign=top><\/TD><br \/>\n<TD class=texto vAlign=top align=right><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><BR><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Officials Reiterate American Support for Dominican Development Santo Domingo, 11\/22\/2010 Dominican President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez met with the Latin America and Caribbean adjunct administer from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), Mark Feierstein, who was accompanied by US Ambassador in the DR, Ra\u00fal H. Yzaguirre. During the one-hour courtesy visit to President Fernandez\u2019s office, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/noti2917\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US Officials Reiterate American Support for Dominican Development&#8221;<\/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-4346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346"}],"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=4346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}