Morales on DR food supply plan

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Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso has welcomed the country's endorsement by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who expressed confidence in the Dominican Republic's ability to set up a program aimed at solving food shortage problems throughout the Caribbean. Morales Troncoso says that the UN would help the DR through all its agencies. He also mentioned working in partnership with the World Bank, through its president Robert Zoellick, to address the regional food shortages. One of the solutions in the works, proposed by President Leonel Fernandez, is the creation of a food solidarity fund. Morales Troncoso said that President Leonel Fernandez will be attending the 3 June World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy Summit to take place on 3 - 5 June 2008 at the FAO headquarters in Rome. Morales said that international representatives would travel to the DR and Haiti to study food supply plan alternatives following the summit.

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