Dominican Republic, Vice President Raquel Pena Rodriguez arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday for a three-day visit to India.
Dominican Republic Vice President Raquel Pena Rodriguez arrives in Delhi. (Photo: X//@MEAIndia)
Dominican Republic, Vice President Raquel Pena Rodriguez arrived in New Delhi on Tuesday for a three-day visit to India.
Raquel Pena Rodriguez will meet President Droupadi Murmu and have a discussion with Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and other Indian dignitaries.
She will deliver a lecture on India-Dominican Republic relations at the Indian Council for World Affairs.
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The Dominican Republic Vice President is set to visit India 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 India. She is on a visit to India from October 3-5.
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“Furthering – ties! A warm welcome to VP @RaquelPenaVice of the Dominican Republic, as she arrives in New Delhi on her first-ever visit to India,” the official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, Arindam Bagchi posted on social media platform, X.
“The visit is significant as it takes place at a time when India-Dominican Republic bilateral relationship is entering its 25th year. The two countries established diplomatic relations on 04 May 1999,” the MEA said in an official release.
Diplomatic relations between India and the Dominican Republic were established in May 1999 as a Memorandum of Understanding was signed in May 2001 in Santo Domingo to hold regular Foreign Office consultations.
Dominican Republic is a significant ally of India 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.
India’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 India and the Dominican Republic. Both nations have expressed their willingness to continue working together and to identify new initiatives.
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