Emmanuel Macron expresses interest in funding SD metropolitan train and comprehensive transportation plan

France.- The presidents of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader, and France, Emmanuel Macron, met this morning and discussed the situation in Haiti and the French government's interest in financing 85% of the Santo Domingo metropolitan train and the GSD's comprehensive transportation plan that the Dominican government has.

In a meeting that lasted approximately 30 minutes, both leaders reviewed the relations between the two countries, with Macron describing them as excellent. You may be interested in: http://Intrant y DGCP presentan Comisión de Veeduría para Licitación del Sistema de Licencias de Conducir The two agreed to continue maintaining those relationships, especially in the collaboration of France in terms of infrastructure for the Dominican Republic. When addressing the Haitian issue, the Dominican president requested that the French president involve his country, along with the international community, in the search for stability in the neighboring country. The two expressed their support for the work of the Kenyan forces and the international mission. In that sense, President Macron expressed his willingness to collaborate on security and defense matters with the Dominican Republic. The President of France also expressed his willingness to collaborate to address the sargassum problem, which affects both the Dominican Republic and French territories in the Caribbean. President Abinader took the opportunity to invite Macron to the country for the beginning of next year, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Santiago Monorail, to which the French president responded positively. Macron received Abinader at the Palais des Rois Sardes, in this city of Nice, where the Third United Nations Conference on the Ocean is being held. During the meeting, President Abinader was accompanied by the Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Paino Henríquez; the Executive Vice President of the Council for Climate Change and Clean Development Mechanism, Max Puig; the ambassador to France, David Puig, and the president's assistant, Noelia Shephard.

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