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07-13-2010, 02:10 PM
During his half-hour meeting with President Leonel Fernandez at the Oval Office yesterday, President Obama said that he and Fernandez had forged a good working relationship and friendship after meeting at the Summit of the Americas last year. He says this has been positive and enabled them to build on the relationship on a whole host of issues.
Obama expressed appreciation for the role the DR has played in helping the international community respond to the crisis in Haiti following the earthquake. He also commented on President Fernandez's help in resolving the political crisis in Honduras earlier this year.
Obama spoke about both countries looking into working together to expand business opportunities, especially clean energy. He said, "President Fernandez and I discussed how we can work more closely together around energy security issues - something that my administration is very interested in partnering with Central American and Latin American countries to work on.
"So the main message I have to the people of the Dominican Republic is thank you for your friendship," said the US President. "I think the American people appreciate greatly the bonds between our two countries -- bonds that express themselves obviously in our extraordinary Dominican population, Dominican-American population that we have here in this country. And obviously I've got to note that we got some pretty good baseball players here from the Dominican Republic".
President Fernandez expressed his appreciation towards President Obama for putting the Caribbean, Latin America and the DR on his agenda. "So once again, Mr. President, I thank you for your friendship, I thank you for your vision, for your leadership, and for your commitment to the region and the Dominican Republic," said Fernandez.
For the complete transcript and video of the remarks to the press, see www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-meets-with-president-fern-ndez (http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-meets-with-president-fern-ndez)
http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-...-july-12-2010/
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Obama expressed appreciation for the role the DR has played in helping the international community respond to the crisis in Haiti following the earthquake. He also commented on President Fernandez's help in resolving the political crisis in Honduras earlier this year.
Obama spoke about both countries looking into working together to expand business opportunities, especially clean energy. He said, "President Fernandez and I discussed how we can work more closely together around energy security issues - something that my administration is very interested in partnering with Central American and Latin American countries to work on.
"So the main message I have to the people of the Dominican Republic is thank you for your friendship," said the US President. "I think the American people appreciate greatly the bonds between our two countries -- bonds that express themselves obviously in our extraordinary Dominican population, Dominican-American population that we have here in this country. And obviously I've got to note that we got some pretty good baseball players here from the Dominican Republic".
President Fernandez expressed his appreciation towards President Obama for putting the Caribbean, Latin America and the DR on his agenda. "So once again, Mr. President, I thank you for your friendship, I thank you for your vision, for your leadership, and for your commitment to the region and the Dominican Republic," said Fernandez.
For the complete transcript and video of the remarks to the press, see www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-meets-with-president-fern-ndez (http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/president-obama-meets-with-president-fern-ndez)
http://thepage.time.com/pool-report-...-july-12-2010/
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)