First of all, I do not know where this belongs...government, the clown bin? Let's leave it in living to get some exposure and then mods feel free to move it to either of the two ...
So, it looks now, the Dominican Republic is aspiring to join the British Commonwealth!
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2013/3/25/47113/Dominican-Republic-bids-to-join-Commonwealth
Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso announced on Sunday that the country will make approaches with a view to joining the British Commonwealth, an international organization made up of 54 countries with close political and economic relations with the United Kingdom.
“It is a membership that will consolidate our common values that were already share and that, together with Haiti, we must continue to strengthen: democracy, freedom, culture of peace, the rule of law and equality of opportunities,” declared Morales Troncoso.
In a press release, the foreign minister stated that the Dominican business sector has been calling for the country to join the Commonwealth for decades, on the grounds that it is a political platform that will allow Dominican society to access a network of interactions that will strengthen education, health, trade, the environment and the justice system.
The comments on the DT site are also well pointed, and some quite funny.
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This has to be pure fantasy ...First the commonwealth is based on countries that had or still have the British sovereign as Head of State ,,the countries have as the basis of their law the law of jurisprudence and precedence and the fact that a person is inocent until proved guilty and fairness.
On the sporting front the commonwealth countries play the british introduced sports of cricket ,rugby and soccer , Although a loose assortment of countries ,I do not think they are so loose as to include the DR and most certainly the sole motive of gaining more trade while ignoring all the other values of the British Commonwealth is unthinkable.I can understand their present desire to cutties with Spain
Well , we do live in a very contrasting country but this must be the oddest thing around
Next time, what will DR aspire to? Be a new province of China?
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So, it looks now, the Dominican Republic is aspiring to join the British Commonwealth!
http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2013/3/25/47113/Dominican-Republic-bids-to-join-Commonwealth
Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso announced on Sunday that the country will make approaches with a view to joining the British Commonwealth, an international organization made up of 54 countries with close political and economic relations with the United Kingdom.
“It is a membership that will consolidate our common values that were already share and that, together with Haiti, we must continue to strengthen: democracy, freedom, culture of peace, the rule of law and equality of opportunities,” declared Morales Troncoso.
In a press release, the foreign minister stated that the Dominican business sector has been calling for the country to join the Commonwealth for decades, on the grounds that it is a political platform that will allow Dominican society to access a network of interactions that will strengthen education, health, trade, the environment and the justice system.
The comments on the DT site are also well pointed, and some quite funny.
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This has to be pure fantasy ...First the commonwealth is based on countries that had or still have the British sovereign as Head of State ,,the countries have as the basis of their law the law of jurisprudence and precedence and the fact that a person is inocent until proved guilty and fairness.
On the sporting front the commonwealth countries play the british introduced sports of cricket ,rugby and soccer , Although a loose assortment of countries ,I do not think they are so loose as to include the DR and most certainly the sole motive of gaining more trade while ignoring all the other values of the British Commonwealth is unthinkable.I can understand their present desire to cutties with Spain
Well , we do live in a very contrasting country but this must be the oddest thing around
Next time, what will DR aspire to? Be a new province of China?
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