President Danilo Medina receives today Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon. Ki-Moon is arriving from Haiti where he discussed with the Haitian government ways to alleviate the cholera epidemic that has killed more than 8,500 persons in Haiti since October 2010 and affected another 700,000. The epidemic is said to have gotten its start due to contamination caused by an infected Nepal Minustah stabilization force member.
On his Dominican agenda is a speech at a joint session in Congress and meeting with other Dominican senior authorities. In the evening he will meet with President Medina at the Presidential Palace and participate in a dinner offered in his honor.
Tomorrow at 11am, Ki Moon will visit the Department of Special Programs of the Presidency (Digepep) to review the poverty-reduction programs carried out by that department under the umbrella of “Quisqueya sin Miseria”.
Ban Ki-moon is traveling with his wife, Yoo Soon-teak who has a separate agenda organized by First Lady Candida Montilla.
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