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04-02-2009, 06:40 PM
During a Government Council meeting held in Santiago de los Caballeros yesterday, President Leonel Fernandez announced a strategic alliance between the government and municipal authorities for launching a plan to repave streets and build sidewalks and gutters. The government leader said that he would convene the country's mayors after Easter Week to discuss the plan's implementation. He maintained that paving city streets and repairing sidewalks and gutters is the municipalities' responsibility but that the government has decided to lend a hand in these projects.
Fernandez said: "I believe that this way the country can see that we are responding to demands that are legitimate, valid and that we are going to satisfy completely." He declared that the Dominican Republic must keep the peace, tranquility and family harmony in order to guarantee economic stability and reactivation of economic growth. "If we can sell ourselves as a safe place for foreign investment, the current situation can be turned into an opportunity for the Dominican Republic," he added.
The President said that in the face of the international financial crisis that affects the great world economic powers, his government is acting with a criterion of national unity. "This is what we are doing with the agreements from the summit, the popular dialogues and our everyday work," he said.
Fernandez said that the country is currently looking for financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Andean Development Corporation and the World Bank as a way of closing the gap between projected income and government expenditure.
Moreover, he pointed out that the measures aimed at reducing interest rates will help promote production and national productivity, guaranteeing a safe food supply.
During the Government Council meeting, officials presented their reports on the fulfillment of the agreement of the first phase of the Summit for National Unity in the face of the World Economic Crisis.
The President also announced that he was sending an official commission to Santiago to study the feasibility of the Tramline announced by the municipal council. In response, Santiago mayor Jose Enrique Sued asked the President to grant an import duty tax exemption for the equipment to be used in the tram project that seeks to improve the public transport system.
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Fernandez said: "I believe that this way the country can see that we are responding to demands that are legitimate, valid and that we are going to satisfy completely." He declared that the Dominican Republic must keep the peace, tranquility and family harmony in order to guarantee economic stability and reactivation of economic growth. "If we can sell ourselves as a safe place for foreign investment, the current situation can be turned into an opportunity for the Dominican Republic," he added.
The President said that in the face of the international financial crisis that affects the great world economic powers, his government is acting with a criterion of national unity. "This is what we are doing with the agreements from the summit, the popular dialogues and our everyday work," he said.
Fernandez said that the country is currently looking for financing from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Andean Development Corporation and the World Bank as a way of closing the gap between projected income and government expenditure.
Moreover, he pointed out that the measures aimed at reducing interest rates will help promote production and national productivity, guaranteeing a safe food supply.
During the Government Council meeting, officials presented their reports on the fulfillment of the agreement of the first phase of the Summit for National Unity in the face of the World Economic Crisis.
The President also announced that he was sending an official commission to Santiago to study the feasibility of the Tramline announced by the municipal council. In response, Santiago mayor Jose Enrique Sued asked the President to grant an import duty tax exemption for the equipment to be used in the tram project that seeks to improve the public transport system.
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