The Commission Pro-Development Fund of the Dominican-Haitian Frontier rendered a report to President Hipólito Mejia at the Ministry of Foreign Relations yesterday. The Commission is made up by Minister of Foreign Relations Hugo Tolentino Dipp; Governor of the Central Bank Frank Guerrero Prats; the director of the Institute for Hydraulic Resources (INDRHI) Silvio Carrasco; Minister of Environment Frank Moya Pons; director of the European Union development funds office, Manuel Caceres Troncoso; businessman Camilo Lluberes Henriquez; lawyer Luis Heredia Bonetti; business consultant Luis Alvarez Renta; and Wenceslao Guerrero, in charge of Haitian affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. The idea is to lobby to garner US approval for the condoning of the Dominican Republic debt with the US so that it may be used to create a fund that would be invested to plant trees, save river basins, build industrial free zone, hydroelectric dams, ports, highways, and develop small and medium-size business programs along the frontier with Haiti. The Dominican group is awaiting the appointment by President Jean Bertrand Aristide of a Haitian commission to participate in the discussions.
