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Chief of the European Union arrived in DR; he has very tight agenda today

He will have a meeting tomorrow with Danilo Medina and Martelly

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Chief of the European Union arrived in DR; he has very tight agenda today
SANTO DOMINGO. The president of the European Council, Herman van Rompuy, arrived last night from Haiti, to carry out starting today a full agenda of visits and meetings with President Danilo Medina, representatives of the Dominican government and other personalities. Tomorrow, 22 July, he will have a tri-lateral meeting between the president of the European Council, President Danilo Medina and his Haitian counterpart, Michel Martelly, to strengthen and back the bilateral agreements that these governments have carried out with the idea of reinforcing their commercial, political and social relations.

Rompuy arrived in Dominican territory at 7:30 p.m. at the Dr. Joaquin Balaguer International Airport.

He was received by the Charge d' Affairs of the delegation of the European Union in the country, Antonia Calvo; Jose Manuel Trullols, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations and by the Chief of State Ceremonies and Protocol, Pedro Gomez.

Today, at 11:30 a.m. Rompuy will be received by President Medina with whom he will talk about issues of the bi-lateral agenda between the Dominican Republic and the European Union.

Later on, the President will offer a luncheon where government officials will take part to discuss several issues in the social, political economic life of the country, among other things.

At 7:30 p.m. he will attend together with his wife, Geertrui Windeis and other members of his entourage to the Gala Inauguration of the "Celebration of 25 Years of Cooperation of the European Union in the Dominican Republic," that will take place in the Carlos Piantini Hall of the Eduardo Brito National Theater.

The DR and the European Union have a broad commercial, cooperative and political relationship, with the European Union as the second commercial partner, and the largest source of foreign investment. The relations between the European Union and the Dominican Republic go back to 1989 and cover the political, economic environment as well as the cooperation for development. Both the quality as well as the diversity of these relations is in constant progress and the European is happy with its evolution and the results of its cooperation up until now.