President Fernandez in France

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On the last leg of a 10-day tour that took him to Spain, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Israel, President Fernandez was in Paris to sign agreements at the UNESCO. He met with UNESCO director Irina Bakova at the UN divisional headquarters in Paris, where he announced the creation of a database to evaluate the problem solving capacity of teachers and students in the DR. "With that base we will create a critical mass in the DR, first of teachers, and then of students, to manage the logic with which those tests are applied, that is not to measure knowledge, but only to establish the capacity of applying knowledge to resolve problems," stated Fernandez. In Paris he also met with the president of La Francophonie (IOF), Abdou Diouf, to strengthen cooperation and the teaching of French in developing projects on the border that will be coordinated with Haiti, according to Dominican ambassador in France, Laura Faxas. Faxas told El Caribe that the role of Francophonie in the university the DR is donating to Haiti was discussed during the meeting.

The International Organization of La Francophonie (IOF) is an institution based on sharing the French language and common cultural values. The IOF comprises fifty-five Member States and Governments and thirteen Observers, accounting for nearly one-third of the UN Member States, and representing a population of over 800 million, including 200 million French speakers. The DR has observer status at the organization.

President Fernandez returned to the DR on a private jet from New York City on Sunday, 26 June.

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