In a speech yesterday, President Leonel Fernandez condemned US magazine Foreign Policy’s report that classifies the DR as a “failed state”. He stated that he did not even want to speculate whether the report has the intention of creating conditions for any intervention in the country by the international community. “We would never allow the occupation of the DR”, sustained the President. Haiti, Colombia and the DR are on a list of 20 countries said to be at highest risk of becoming failed states, according to a report published two weeks ago by the Foreign Policy and Fund for Peace, an organization that seeks to avoid war and mitigate its effects. The President emphatically stated that classifying a state as failed is saying implicitly that it should be occupied, as in the case of Haiti. He warned developed nations that they are wrong in seeking a combined solution to the economic and political crises in Haiti and the DR. There are no joint solutions; Haiti is a separate reality, sustained Fernandez. While admitting that the country is a “fragile state with an imperfect democracy” similar to other Latin American countries, he denies that it is a failed state. A failed state is a nation dominated by drug addiction and terrorism, which poses a threat to the international community, he said. The President was speaking at the International Conference on Ethics, Prevention and Punishment of Corruption. He received a vigorous standing ovation when he stated he would not allow foreign intervention in the DR.