
President Luis Abinader was at the Lake Lucerne area in Switzerland on 15 and 16 June 2024 to attend the Swiss Peace Summit on Ukraine. President Abinader was accompanied by Foreign Minister Robert Alvarez.
The Presidency reported that President Luis Abinader during his turn at the working session on food safety, chaired by the President of Kenya William Ruto, highlighted the negative impact the Ukrainian war has had on the Dominican economy, stating that the conflict has affected the food security of the Dominican population.
Abinader expressed concern for the loss of human lives and the precarious situation in the matter of food safety caused by the damage caused by the installations of production and storage of cereals in Ukraine, a former world leader in grain exports. The two years of war have increased the prices of these basic commodities for the Dominican economy, as well as imported fuel.
“Finally, I cannot stop mentioning, because of its importance for the Dominican economy, that the war has also affected Dominican tourism,” he said. The war put an end to the thousands of Russian and Ukrainian tourists that were visiting the country after the peak of the pandemic. The Dominican Republic was the leading vacation destination for Russians in the Caribbean and Central American region.
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17 June 2024