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NewsWhore
09-09-2008, 03:40 PM
Venezuelan Ambassador in the DR Francisco Belisario Landis is denying that the Venezuelan government has formally handed over 100 houses to the Dominican government as was announced by Monsenor Nouel provincial governor Nestor Francisco Melenciano. According to an official protest by the Venezuelan government to the Ministry of Foreign Relations, 100 homes that were built by Venezuela for victims of last year's tropical storms Noel and Olga were handed over to families that didn't meet the requirements stipulated by the bilateral agreement. Dominican Foreign Relations Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso says that the mix-up has not affected President Leonel Fernandez's relationship with Hugo Chavez or the DR's relationship with Venezuela.

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