President Danilo Medina hosted a meeting with representatives from several international organizations in his office in the Presidential Palace yesterday, Monday 9 June 2014, mainly to discuss the National Foreigner Legalization Plan. The Presidency reported that the officials expressed satisfaction with the progress made to date and acknowledged it was a major step towards resolving a historical problem.
The Resident Coordinator of the United Nations and the representative for the United Nations Development Program in the country, Lorenzo Jimenez de Luis attended the meeting along with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) representative Maria Jesus Conde and Cy Winter from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative Sonia Vasquez and her counterpart from the United Nations Refugee Agency, Maria Paz Bermejo were also at the meeting.
Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo accompanied President Medina.
Speaking to journalists after the meeting, Jimenez de Luis said that they all wanted to help with the National Regularization Plan. Pending still is the publishing of the ruling for the implementation of recently passed Naturalization Law 169-14.
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