President Leonel Fernandez is maintaining his optimism and stated that there is “national and international good will that points in that direction.” The Chief Executive headed the launch of the Presidential Commission on the Objectives of the Millennium and Sustainable Development. The President was confident that the country was working to reach each of the goals as set out by the United Nations and which are supposed to be fulfilled by the year 2015. While admitting that he had inherited a country in crisis, Fernandez insisted that the work of the new commission would help overcome the problems. Commission president John Gagain Jr said that the Dominican Republic was the first country to establish any such commission to follow up on the Objectives for the Millennium. As reported in the Diario Libre, Fernandez also referred to the crisis at the inauguration of the MFI Products factory and pointed out how the geographical position, the young labor force and government encouragement to industry would help to solve the current crisis.