President Luis Abinader had a meeting with the Secretary General of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), Zurab Pololikashvili, at the headquarters of this body, to coordinate policies aimed at further recovering the tourism sector in the Dominican Republic.
At the meeting, the Dominican head of state thanked UNWTO for its support for the recovery of tourism in our country. He appreciated UNWTO’s commitment to accompany other countries to develop the best policies and bring the confidence needed to recover tourism.
“Our real goal is the hundreds of thousands of men and women in the Dominican Republic who earn their living from tourism every day in an honest and dignified manner,” the president said.
He also reaffirmed that the responsibility of the government he leads is to bring about the recovery of this sector and its people, whose incomes have been interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a meeting with Pololikashvili, who later offered him lunch, Abinader was accompanied by Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez and ProDominicana director Biviana Riveiro.
At the end of this meeting, the governor unveiled a plaque, which, together with the Dominican shield, explains the visit of the president to the headquarters of the World Tourism Organization, on April 18, 2021.
President Abinader is on an official trip to Spain and will be received by King Felipe VI of Spain and the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez.
Yesterday, the Dominican president met with former presidents of the Spanish government Felipe González and José María Aznar, where he was accompanied by the Dominican ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, Juan Bolivar Díaz.
In addition, Abinader held a meeting with the Spanish-based Dominican community, whose representatives offered him a dinner in his honor, and also had a meeting with a committee of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) on the agenda. ).
Upon his arrival at Adolfo Suárez Airport, President Abinader was received by a mission of the Spanish Government and Ambassadors Juan Bolivar Díaz in Spain; Anibal de Castro in front of the World Tourism Organization (WTO) and Spain, in the Dominican Republic, Alejandro Abellan.
The official visit of the Dominican President to Spain refers, among other items on the agenda, to the XXVIII Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Government, in which this year the Dominican Republic will take over the presidency pro tempore .
Abinader is scheduled to arrive in Andorra tomorrow at noon, where he will be received by the authorities of this principality. The summit aims to unify the criteria for dealing with future pandemics and to develop a programmatic agenda to strengthen health systems, in the midst of the most important international meeting of nations in the region.
The meeting brings together personally, and virtually others, leaders and ministers from 22 Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries.
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President Abinader arrived in Madrid, Espeña, on a two-day visit, before continuing to Andorra, where he will attend the twenty-seventh Ibero-American Summit to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday, in which the year the Dominican Republic will take over the presidency pre tempore.
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The president arrived at Adolfo Suárez Airport at 10:40 a.m. in the company of Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez and ProDominicana director Viviana Ribeiro, his security chief, Major General Celin Rubio, and his aides Lourdes Herrera and Eilyn Beltran.