President Leonel Fernandez said yesterday that the DR is willing to help “to calm the rhetorical confrontation that exists between the US and Venezuelan governments”. Listin Diario reports that Fernandez referred to this when asked about the Dominican Republic’s relationship with the US and Venezuela, in a conference of the Council of The Americas held on the occasion of his presence in the UN World Summit. The President said that the DR shares the DR-CAFTA agreement with the US and the Petro-Caribbean agreement with Venezuela and stated that both treaties are beneficial for the DR so “we will not get involved in the differences existing among our friends”.