Dominican Republic Joins in Effort to Contribute to Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Dominican Republic Joins in Effort to Contribute to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Ramallah, Palestina 06/21/2011

The Dominican Republic will join Latin American efforts to reach a peaceful settlement between Palestine and Israel, within the context of the United Nations.

“Although we are geographically distant, we in the Dominican Republic have been following the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a long time,”…

President Leonel Fernández made this announcement last Saturday in a work meeting with the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan, a think tank created in 1984 to carry out research into regional conflicts and international security.

“Although we are geographically distant, we in the Dominican Republic have been following the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a long time,” President Fernández told the president of the University of Jordan, Adel Tweisi and Nawaf W. Tell, director of the Center for Strategic Studies.

In an exchange among intellectuals and thinkers at the research center in Jordan, the Head of State announced that the Dominican Republic intends to work in an effort to promote strategic alliances in Latin America which will contribute to a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the Presidency’s Office of Information, Press and Publicity.

A unified effort on the part of all Latin American countries aimed at supporting peace efforts underway in the Middle East in addition to the impact of regional public opinion will provoke a positive effect in this direction, commented Fernández.

He also said, “in our own modest fashion, the Dominican Republic can contribute to the search for a viable solution to this conflict and the best way to do that is through the United Nations.”

“Certainly the region and the world are undergoing an historic moment and a process of radical change which are witnessed by the social protest movements going on in countries that are entering a process of democratization,” he continued.

For the Dominican President, the first task to be undertaken is for our nations to make economic transformations that will bring about the necessary political and social changes.
Adel Tweisi, Rector of the University of Jordan, said his country’s diplomacy was adopted to contribute solutions, not just for Jordan, but also for other conflicts that arise in the Middle East.

In the meeting between President Fernández and the academics and intellectuals, they analyzed the origins of world conflicts and how education has contributed to the individualization of people.

Economic problems, political corruption and demographic growth are three factors that have generated violence and political conflict on a global level, in the opinions of the participants of the meeting.

First Lady Margarita Cedeño de Fernández accompanied the President to the University of Jordan along with Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso; Rafael Núñez, Secretary of State, Press, Director; Eddy Martínez, Director of the Center for Investment and Exportation of the Dominican Republic; John Gagain, director of the Presidential Commission of the Millennium Goals; Eduardo Selmán, Secretary of State without portfolio. Several businesspeople were also on the visit including Félix García, Manuel Estrella and Domingo Dauhajre.

President Fernández also held a meeting with the president of the Jordanian Senate, Taher el-Masri; vice president Abdul Raouf Al Rawabdeh and congresswoman Layla Sharaf, with whom he talked about the economy, politics and the social reality of the Middle East.