The president of the Herrera Industries Association, Victor Castro, has called on President Danilo Medina to fulfill his promise and turn the Ministry of Foreign Relations into the main ally of the country’s productive sector. He lamented the way that the Ministry of Foreign Relations has become a cash cow for a political party that is a ruling party ally to reward its activists by appointing them to foreign service posts. Castro said that the Ministry of Foreign Relations’ mission is to identify new business opportunities in new markets and criticized the fact that there are people listed as “working” in the Luxembourg mission who have never been on a plane. Castro made his comments after a talk by the director of the Foreign Commerce division (Dicoex) of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Katrina Naut on “The Impact and Prospects of DR-CAFTA 2015: a Challenge for the Industrial Sector,” yesterday, Wednesday, 4 June.
Naut highlighted of the need for local companies to produce higher value-added products.
AEIH pide Cancillería deje de ser botín y se torne en aliado sector productor