{"id":228675,"date":"2024-12-18T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T12:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=228675"},"modified":"2024-12-18T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T13:38:15","slug":"foreign-minister-roberto-alvarez-welcomes-leah-francis-campos-nomination-as-us-ambassador-to-the-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/12\/18\/foreign-minister-roberto-alvarez-welcomes-leah-francis-campos-nomination-as-us-ambassador-to-the-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Roberto \u00c1lvarez welcomes Leah Francis Campos\u2019 nomination as US ambassador to the DR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Roberto-Alvarez-Diario-Libre-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-228765\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Roberto-Alvarez-Diario-Libre-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Roberto-Alvarez-Diario-Libre-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Roberto-Alvarez-Diario-Libre-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Roberto-Alvarez-Diario-Libre.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican Minister of Foreign Relations, Roberto \u00c1lvarez, expressed a positive view on the nomination of Leah Francis Campos as the new US ambassador to the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are very pleased that someone was nominated so quickly, and it seems she will receive full approval from the US Senate,\u201d \u00c1lvarez said, speaking to the press on the occasion of the presentation of a new book (Dominican Diplomacy in the Face of the Haitian Crisis 2020-2024) on Dominican and Haitian diplomacy at the Ministry of Foreign Relations on 17 December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1lvarez said US President-elect Donald Trump needs to take office on 20 January 2025 before Campos\u2019 appointment can be officially confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c1lvarez was also asked about the possibility of Dominican President Luis Abinader being invited to Trump\u2019s inauguration. The foreign minister confirmed that no formal invitation had been extended to Abinader as of yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In general, only ambassadors are invited to these events in the United States. The invitation that President Trump extended to the President of China is an exception. Usually, only the diplomatic corps attends, not foreign heads of state,&#8221; \u00c1lvarez explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/usa\/actualidad\/2024\/12\/17\/leah-francis-campos-canciller-valora-nominacion\/2944247\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/12\/17\/leah-francis-campos-nominated-us-ambassador-to-the-dominican-republic\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/12\/18\/new-book-details-diplomatic-efforts-regarding-haiti\/\">DR1 News<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 December 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Minister of Foreign Relations, Roberto \u00c1lvarez, expressed a positive view on the nomination of Leah Francis Campos as the new US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. \u201cWe are very pleased that someone was nominated so quickly, and it seems she will receive full approval from the US Senate,\u201d \u00c1lvarez said, speaking to the press &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/12\/18\/foreign-minister-roberto-alvarez-welcomes-leah-francis-campos-nomination-as-us-ambassador-to-the-dr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228789,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228675\/revisions\/228789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}