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07-17-2009, 04:40 PM
President Leonel Fernandez was unanimously chosen as general rapporteur to deliver the concluding remarks at the XV Summit of Non-Aligned States (NAM), which took place in Egypt. The NAM meeting, which ended yesterday, included 118 member countries represented by a contingent of no fewer than 8,000 delegates from Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Fernandez was presented to the delegation by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Among topics discussed was a unanimous call for the US to lift the trade embargo with Cuba.
Continuing on his 10-day Middle East tour, Fernandez today will visit the Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, followed by a visit to the American University in Cairo. He will also visit Carmen Feliz, a Dominican student who is studying Arabic in Egypt as part of an exchange with Harvard University.
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Fernandez was presented to the delegation by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Among topics discussed was a unanimous call for the US to lift the trade embargo with Cuba.
Continuing on his 10-day Middle East tour, Fernandez today will visit the Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, followed by a visit to the American University in Cairo. He will also visit Carmen Feliz, a Dominican student who is studying Arabic in Egypt as part of an exchange with Harvard University.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)