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05-17-2010, 02:50 PM
President Leonel Fernandez left on Sunday evening for meetings in Spain and Italy. In Madrid, he will be attending the 6th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Presidency announced that Fernandez would also be visiting the Carlos II University Technological Park, where he will give a talk on constitutional reform in the DR. At 9pm on Monday, he and First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez will be the King and Queen of Spain's guests of honor at the Royal Palace.
On Tuesday, 18 May, sessions for the 6th European Union-LAC Summit will take place from 9am to 5pm. This will be the last preparatory meeting prior to the World Summit on the Future of Haiti to be held in Punta Cana on 2 June 2010.
Fernandez will also participate in the session where President Lula da Silva of Brazil will receive an award from the New Economy Forum on Economic Development and Social Cohesion 2010.
At 9:30pm he will dine with Spaniards Enrique Arnaldo, lawyer and professor of constitutional law, and Pedro Gonzalez Trevijano, rector of the King Juan Carlos University.
On Wednesday, 19 May, the President will meet with the Minister of Education and rectors of several Spanish universities to reach agreements.
At 11:45am of Wednesday, President Fernandez will visit World Tourism Organization headquarters where he will meet with director general Taleb Rifai and receive an award for the positioning of the DR as a leader in tourism in the Americas.
Later he will meet with Sami Nair, a French political philosopher who coined the term "co-development". Nair is a specialist on migration movements and their socio-political effects.
On Thursday, 20 May Fernandez will hold other education sector meetings, and on 10:15am he is scheduled to meet with judge Baltazar Garzon, known around the world for attempting to bring dictators to justice.
He travels on to Rome late on Thursday, 20 May. His agenda in Italy includes a meeting with the Prince of the Order of Malta in Rome on Friday 21 May. At 10:30am he is scheduled for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, and later with Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and Foreign Relations Minister of the Holy See Archbishop Dominique Mamberi. The Vatican was recently announced as the special invited guest of the 2011 Santo Domingo International Book Fair, the DR's main government-sponsored cultural event.
At 1pm, President Fernandez will visit the Pontifical Council for Culture, and the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences. He is scheduled for meetings with business leaders at the Italy-Dominican Republic chamber of Commerce, and at 8pm for a meeting with Italian legislator Mario Baccini, the vice president of the Senate and member of the Third Commission (Foreign Affairs) and 14th Commission (European Union Politics).
Also on his Italian agenda is a visit to L'Aquila on Saturday, 22 May to discuss the urban renewal that the city has undergone with the reconstruction following the earthquake on 6 April 2009.
On Sunday, 23 May, the President will travel to Florence for meetings with Italian business representatives and potential investors. On Monday, 24 May he is scheduled for meetings with university authorities from the European Institute of Florence and the Italian Institute of Human Sciences.
He is scheduled to return on Tuesday, 25 May at 1pm via Las Americas International Airport.
www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=12328 (http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=12328)
www.eu2010.es/en/cumbre_ue-alc/noticias/ (http://www.eu2010.es/en/cumbre_ue-alc/noticias/)
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The Presidency announced that Fernandez would also be visiting the Carlos II University Technological Park, where he will give a talk on constitutional reform in the DR. At 9pm on Monday, he and First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez will be the King and Queen of Spain's guests of honor at the Royal Palace.
On Tuesday, 18 May, sessions for the 6th European Union-LAC Summit will take place from 9am to 5pm. This will be the last preparatory meeting prior to the World Summit on the Future of Haiti to be held in Punta Cana on 2 June 2010.
Fernandez will also participate in the session where President Lula da Silva of Brazil will receive an award from the New Economy Forum on Economic Development and Social Cohesion 2010.
At 9:30pm he will dine with Spaniards Enrique Arnaldo, lawyer and professor of constitutional law, and Pedro Gonzalez Trevijano, rector of the King Juan Carlos University.
On Wednesday, 19 May, the President will meet with the Minister of Education and rectors of several Spanish universities to reach agreements.
At 11:45am of Wednesday, President Fernandez will visit World Tourism Organization headquarters where he will meet with director general Taleb Rifai and receive an award for the positioning of the DR as a leader in tourism in the Americas.
Later he will meet with Sami Nair, a French political philosopher who coined the term "co-development". Nair is a specialist on migration movements and their socio-political effects.
On Thursday, 20 May Fernandez will hold other education sector meetings, and on 10:15am he is scheduled to meet with judge Baltazar Garzon, known around the world for attempting to bring dictators to justice.
He travels on to Rome late on Thursday, 20 May. His agenda in Italy includes a meeting with the Prince of the Order of Malta in Rome on Friday 21 May. At 10:30am he is scheduled for an audience with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican, and later with Secretary of State of the Vatican, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and Foreign Relations Minister of the Holy See Archbishop Dominique Mamberi. The Vatican was recently announced as the special invited guest of the 2011 Santo Domingo International Book Fair, the DR's main government-sponsored cultural event.
At 1pm, President Fernandez will visit the Pontifical Council for Culture, and the headquarters of the Academy of Sciences. He is scheduled for meetings with business leaders at the Italy-Dominican Republic chamber of Commerce, and at 8pm for a meeting with Italian legislator Mario Baccini, the vice president of the Senate and member of the Third Commission (Foreign Affairs) and 14th Commission (European Union Politics).
Also on his Italian agenda is a visit to L'Aquila on Saturday, 22 May to discuss the urban renewal that the city has undergone with the reconstruction following the earthquake on 6 April 2009.
On Sunday, 23 May, the President will travel to Florence for meetings with Italian business representatives and potential investors. On Monday, 24 May he is scheduled for meetings with university authorities from the European Institute of Florence and the Italian Institute of Human Sciences.
He is scheduled to return on Tuesday, 25 May at 1pm via Las Americas International Airport.
www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=12328 (http://www.presidencia.gob.do/app/article.aspx?id=12328)
www.eu2010.es/en/cumbre_ue-alc/noticias/ (http://www.eu2010.es/en/cumbre_ue-alc/noticias/)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)