“Safety and security, investment and trade, disaster preparedness and education – “SIDE” – are my main priorities,” says US Ambassador Bernstein as she sums up her first year in the country. “As I travel the country, from Dajabón to Punta Cana, Las Terrenas to Boca Chica – I continue to find opportunities for the United States and the Dominican Republic to partner on our mutual interests and tackle our mutual challenges together,” she says in her official statement.
Speaking to the media on the occasion, Ambassador Bernstein spoke of her satisfaction with the integration of the Egmont Group into the country as a way of controlling money laundering and drug trafficking. She is pleased that cocaine seizures in the Dominican Republic have doubled in 2019 compared to the previous year.
She also mentioned projects of Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) with a value of US$20 million that has been approved. She said the focus is on infrastructure projects, projects that are women-run or principally benefit women or projects in collaboration with a variety of US businesses.
She spoke of the efforts to make government contracts and tenders more transparent.
Bernstein presented Shane Myers as the new charge d’affaires at the US Embassy.
United States Ambassador Robin Bernstein said in an official statement: “I can I truly say I feel like I belong here.”
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Listin Diario
30 September 2019