The papers are reporting that President Hipolito Mejia and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez spoke on the phone yesterday and reached a conclusion to the ongoing diplomatic dispute between the two countries. Once certain “administrative formalities” are put into place, oil exports to the Dominican Republic should then resume under the favorable terms of the San Jose agreement, by which Venezuela sells oil to neighboring countries with preferential conditions. Exports were suspended in August in retaliation for alleged Dominican government complicity in Venezuelan opposition activities on Dominican soil and which included accusations of an assassination plot against Hugo Chavez. The Dominican authorities have always denied these charges. Earlier in the day, Venezuelan ambassador to Santo Domingo Francisco Belisario Landis and Interior & Justice Minister Lucas Rincon Romero met with President Mejia and presented him with what they claimed was evidence of dissident activities, including documents, recordings and other surveillance materials. Venezuela supplies the Dominican Republic with an estimated 25,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Other oil-exporting countries in the region, such as Mexico and Trinidad, had been making up this large deficit during the interim. Diplomatic relations are also set to return to normal. Ambassador Belisario Landis released a communique highlighting the strong, co-oparative and neighborly relations that have always existed between the two countries.