President Danilo Medina, former president Leonel Fernandez and PRD president Miguel Vargas were all in New York, yesterday, Monday 22 September 2014, attending several events. It is not known if they had planned to meet up, although it was reported that Fernandez and Vargas were both staying in the Marriott Hotel. Vargas and Medina are believed to have travelled on the same flight to New York on Saturday, 20 September 2014.
President Medina is in New York to address the 69th United Nations General Assembly on the afternoon of Wednesday, 24 September, while Vargas has a series of meetings with US authorities, and Fernandez is beginning a tour that will take him to Massachusetts, New Jersey, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.
President Medina is expected back on Wednesday.