The Ministry of Foreign Relations reports that bodies dealing with trade negotiations in the DR will be grouped under the Comisi?n Nacional de Negociaciones Comerciales, the organization that is presided by the Ministry of Foreign Relations. The decision to unite the efforts brings under the roof of the Ministry of Foreign Relations the negotiation groups for the Summit of the Americas, the World Trade Organization and the Lome IV. Economist Frederic Emam-Zad? is the nation’s leading negotiator. The CNNC has recently completed a free trade agreement with several Central American countries, advanced on a free trade agreement with Caricom, and is holding bilateral talks with Venezuela, Mexico, Ecuador, Cuba, Colombia and Chile.
