President Leonel Fern?ndez appointed economist Federico Cuello, until yesterday deputy Technical Secretary of the Presidency, new Ambassador in Geneva, Switzerland and permanent representative of the DR before the United Nations and other international organizations based in that country. He replaces Mrs. Angelina Bonetti Herrera who had been in the post since 1983. Cuello has a doctorate in economic development, regional economy and econometrics from the University of Illinois in the US. Since 1995 he has coordinated the trade policy reform in the areas of services, telecommunications, intellectual property. Cuello told El Siglo newspaper that his appointment is in line with the government strategy to insert the DR into the world economy. He stressed the importance of the post at a time when most of the organizations that are defining the future world economic order are located in Geneva — World Trade Organization, the United Nations Conference for Trade and Development, the International Union of Telecommunications and the World Organization for Intellectual Property.
