{"id":23369,"date":"2009-07-20T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/stronger-ties-with-africa\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T01:43:56","slug":"stronger-ties-with-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/07\/20\/stronger-ties-with-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Stronger ties with Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The DR&#8217;s potential participation as an observer in the African Union and the DR&#8217;s cooperation with Algeria and Angola in the areas of electricity, are strengthening the country&#8217;s relationship with the African continent. <\/p>\n<p> On his return from accompanying President Leonel Fernandez on his 10-day trip to the Middle East, Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso says that these African nations are now among the DR&#8217;s strongest allies. <\/p>\n<p> Morales met with several leading African diplomatic figures while attending the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Egypt. <\/p>\n<p> Listin Diario reports that the DR&#8217;s diplomatic corps in Egypt will head the DR&#8217;s efforts on the African continent. <\/p>\n<p> Morales also commented on the possibility of the Algerian company Sonatrach sending a delegation to the DR to study cooperation between both countries. Sonatrach, the 11th largest petroleum consortium in the world, is considering the DR as a trans-shipment point for penetrating the Latin American market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DR&#8217;s potential participation as an observer in the African Union and the DR&#8217;s cooperation with Algeria and Angola in the areas of electricity, are strengthening the country&#8217;s relationship with the African continent. On his return from accompanying President Leonel Fernandez on his 10-day trip to the Middle East, Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso says &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/07\/20\/stronger-ties-with-africa\/\" 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":[228,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23369"}],"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=23369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}