Foreign Minister of United Arab Emirates Confirms Installation of Natural Gas Plant in DR

The Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Sheikh Abdallah Binzayid Al Nahyan, is in the Dominican Republic for several day to begin the construction of a modern natural gas plant in the city of Manzanillo, which will yield an additional 600 new megawatts to the national electric system.

This Monday, Dominican President Leonel Fernández met with the UAE Foreign Minister for an hour in one of the private rooms on the third floor of the National Palace.

The International Petroleum Investment Company of Abu Dhabi, working with its subsidiary Mann-Forrestar, will be in charge of the installation of the plant at an initial cost of $800 million dollars, according to the President’s Office of Information, Press and Publicity.

This Monday, Dominican President Leonel Fernández met with the UAE Foreign Minister for an hour in one of the private rooms on the third floor of the National Palace.

The presence of the official Arab delegation is the result of the visit, eight months ago, made by President Fernández to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates where he met many government officials as well as business leaders.

At that time, Fernández motivated the Arab businesspeople to invest in the Dominican Republic offering them the security of the national investment laws for foreign investment.

Binzayid Al Nahyan said he is pleased with his visit to the DR as well as the conversation he had with President Leonel Fernández. He added that he was impressed with the beauty of the Dominican countryside and the relationship established through the Multimodal Caucedo Company, which has been operating in the DR since 2005.

The Foreign Minister announced that he would continue to establish even closer ties with the DR by setting up a diplomatic office where they can develop contacts with the rest of Latin America.

Accompanying President Fernández at the meeting was the Administrative Secretary to the President, Luis Manuel Bonetti; Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso; Tourism Minister, Francisco Javier García; the Administrator of the Dominican Corporation of State Electrical Companies

(CDEEE in Spanish), Celso Marranzini, and the Dominican Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Clara Martínez, among others.

n the part of the United Arab Emirates, several officials were present including the Minister of External Commerce, H.E. Reem Ebra Him Reda Alhashimy; the President of DP World, H.E. Sultan Bin Sulayem, and the State Minister of the IRENA Office, Hazza Ahmed Khamis Alkaabi, among others.