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President-elect to travel to US

President-elect Hipólito Mejía confirmed he would travel to Washington, D.C. during the weekend for meetings with US Department of State, the World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, Agency for International Development and the International Monetary Fund officers. Mejia will spend three days in Washington and then is scheduled to travel to Spain and France. An advance mission traveled to Washington head by Rafael Calderon, who is the President’s choice for Technical Secretary of the Presidency and Frank Guerrero Prats, who is rumored to be the next governor of the Central Bank. Mejía will travel on Sunday, accompanied by his wife Rosa Gomez de Mejia, and other assistants. He said that he will not meet with President Clinton. "To meet with Clinton is Major League and I am barely still a Minor League player," he said.