2013News

Medina and Obama to meet in Costa Rica

President Danilo Medina is scheduled to meet with President Barack Obama this Friday, 3 May at the Central American System of Integration (Sica) Summit that will be held in Costa Rica, starting on Thursday, 2 May. At present, it is not know at what time the two leaders will get together, and it is still not known whether Medina will attend the Petrocaribe summit announced for Saturday, 4 May in Venezuela by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The Presidential Palace has yet to confirm Medina’s attendance at that meeting. The Dominican Republic receives 50,000 barrels of oil a day from Venezuela under the Petrocaribe Accords and refineries in both countries have agreements, as reported in El Caribe.