The Dominican delegation to meetings with high-ranking officers of the People’s Republic of China includes several leading Dominican businessmen. The official delegation left on a private jet to New York on Wednesday, 31 October 2018, and from there took a commercial flight to Beijing. Businessmen part of the official mission are: Pedro Brache, Juan Vicini, Jose González, Frank Rainieri, Abraham Hazoury, Carlos Martí, Hector Rizek, José Clase, Fernando Capellan, Micalo Bermudez, Fernando Villanueva and Felix Garcia, representing ventures in commerce, tourism, manufacturing, energy, and agribusiness.
The official Dominican government delegation includes Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas Maldonado, Administrative Minister of the Presidency Jose Ramon Peralta, Hacienda Minister Donald Guerrero, Industry & Commerce Minister Nelson Toca Simó, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier García, Agriculture Minister Osmar Benítez, Interior and Police Minister José Ramón Fadul, Monte Platasenator Charlie Mariotti. Also the vice president of the Public Electricity Corporation (CDEEE), Ruben Jimenez Bichara; the general manager of the governmental Banco de Reservas, Enrique Ramírez; the director of the National Export Free Zones Council, Luisa Fernández; the director of the Center for Export & Investment (CEI-RD), Marius de León; the director of the National Competitiveness Council (CNC); presidential assistant Carlos Pared Pérez; government spokesman Roberto Rodríguez Marchena; and Dominican ambassador in China, Briunny Garabito.
The Presidency reports that the official visit begins with a stop at the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The ten-story obelisk was erected as a national monument of the People’s Republic of China to the martyrs of revolutionary struggle during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is located to the north of Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
On his agenda is a first meeting with Premier of the State Council Li Keqiang after which he will meet at 5pm with President Xi Jinping for the signing of several cooperation and trade agreements at the Popular National Assembly.
Medina is also scheduled to visit the Shanghai convention center where the first China International Import Expo will be inaugurated.
President Medina and the official delegation are scheduled to return to Santo Domingo on next Wednesday, 7 November 2018.
The largest opposition party, PRM, requested that the government disclose the agreements that it reaches on behalf of the Dominican government. Recently, the government denied having reached an agreement with a Chinese government entity regarding a major logistics port at Manzanillo on the northeastern coast. When evidence of the signing of the agreement was presented, the government admitted to the signing of a memorandum of understanding.
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1 November 2018
