Dominican Republic Vice President Raquel Pena Rodriguez arrived in
New Delhi on a three-day visit to Bharat.
Raquel Pena Rodriguez will call on President Droupadi Murmu and
hold discussions with Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and other Bharatn
dignitaries.
She will also deliver a lecture on Bharat-Dominican Republic
relations at the Bharatn Council for World Affairs.
“Furthering ties! A warm welcome to VP @RaquelPenaVice of the
Dominican Republic, as she arrives in New Delhi on her first-ever visit to Bharat,”
External Affairs Ministry official spokesperson Arindam Bagchi posted on X.
The Dominican Republic Vice President is set to visit Bharat at the
invitation of her Indian counterpart Jagdeep Dhankhar. This will be the
first-ever visit of the Vice President of the Dominican Republic to Bharat. She
is on a visit to Bharat from October 3-5.
“The visit is significant as it takes place at a time when Bharat-Dominican
Republic bilateral relationship is entering its 25th year. The two countries
established diplomatic relations on May 4, 1999,” the MEA said in an official
release.
Diplomatic relations between Bharat and the Dominican Republic were
established in May 1999. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed in May 2001
in Santo Domingo to hold regular Foreign Office consultations.
Dominican Republic is an important partner of Bharat in the Latin
America and Caribbean region. The visit of the Vice President of the Dominican
Republic comes closely on the heels of that of External Affairs Minister S
Jaishankar to that country in April 2023, the MEA release added.
Bharat’s exports to the Dominican Republic are small but growing.
Training and exchange of good practices have constituted the two
main axes of cooperation between Bharat and the Dominican Republic. Both
nations have expressed their willingness to continue working together and to
identify new initiatives.
Within the framework of the ITEC program, Dominican professionals
have been receiving training since 1999 in Indian institutions in various
disciplines.
A centre of Excellence for Information Technologies set up in 2011
in Santiago, with the support of the Indian Government, operated with three Indian
instructors for a period of two years.
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