Confidence or rhetoric?

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While President Leonel Fernandez accepts that the state of the world economy could bring potential problems to the DR in 2009, he also remains confident that the DR will overcome any obstacles and that 2009 will be a year of peace and prosperity for the nation. Quoted in Hoy, Fernandez said the government would do all it could to guarantee the nation's stability. "We are going to work in 2009 in the midst of adverse international circumstances," he said when interviewed on occasion of the Christmas tree inaugural at the Presidencial Palace. Priorities in 2009 would be to create more jobs, reduce crime and resolve the nation's long-standing energy problem. Central Bank governor Hector Valdez Albizu claims that 2009 will not be as bad as some observers are indicating. Quoted in El Caribe, he said the DR would do well in spite of the international financial crisis.

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