President Leonel Fernandez was unanimously chosen as general rapporteur to deliver the concluding remarks at the XV Summit of Non-Aligned States (NAM), which took place in Egypt. The NAM meeting, which ended yesterday, included 118 member countries represented by a contingent of no fewer than 8,000 delegates from Africa, Asia and Latin America. <\/p>\n
Fernandez was presented to the delegation by Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Among topics discussed was a unanimous call for the US to lift the trade embargo with Cuba. <\/p>\n
Continuing on his 10-day Middle East tour, Fernandez today will visit the Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, followed by a visit to the American University in Cairo. He will also visit Carmen Feliz, a Dominican student who is studying Arabic in Egypt as part of an exchange with Harvard University. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Leonel Fernandez was unanimously chosen as general rapporteur to deliver the concluding remarks at the XV Summit of Non-Aligned States (NAM), which took place in Egypt. The NAM meeting, which ended yesterday, included 118 member countries represented by a contingent of no fewer than 8,000 delegates from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Fernandez was … <\/p>\n