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12-23-2008, 02:00 PM
Minister of Foreign Relations Carlos Morales Troncoso has announced the incorporation of the Dominican Republic into The Hague Convention apostilles procedure, a time saving process to legalize official documents. An "apostille" is a certificate issued by a designated authority in a country where the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement for Legalization of Foreign Public Documents applies. The international mechanism will enable Dominicans to legalize their documents in the DR and these will be valid in 172 countries. The apostille replaces the previous four legal procedures with one single procedure. "Today we celebrate the fact that President Leonel Fernandez has signed, after its approval by Congress, the Hague Conference on Private International Law signed in The Hague in 1961" said Morales. This eliminates the tedious procedures to legalize foreign public documents, as reported in El Nuevo Diario. The Ministry of Foreign Relations will be in charge of the apostilles to legitimize official documents.
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