Leonel Fernández Participates in Plenary of the Montevideo Circle in Spain

The ex-president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández, attended the XI Plenary Meeting of the "Montevideo Circle," hosted at the Palacio de la Generalitat of Catalonia, Spain, February 20-26, 2002.

A good share of the efforts at this meeting was devoted to the reviewing of a report on the progress of the United Nations Program on the "Democratic Development in Latin America: Status, Citizens' Perception, Indicators, and Agenda."

Others present at this event, in which Fernández contributed with his comments and suggestions, include ex-presidents from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain, and a delegation from the World Commission on the Social Dimension of the Globalization of the International Labor Organization, which in turn submitted a progress report on its own work.

´´Both topics are among the central issues of our activities in recent years," said Julio María Sanguinetti, founder of the Montevideo Circle.

The former Uruguayan president added that "as usual, the meeting gave us the chance to go over various political events of recent months, which undoubtedly deserve special attention.´´

A formal dinner hosted by the President of the Generalitat, Jordi Pujol, in honor of the members of the Montevideo Circle and observers to the XI Plenary Meeting thereof, marked the formal commencement of this series of activities.

 

Official Picture of the Participants to the Plenary of the Montevideo Circle, which depicts the former Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández.

MEETING WITH EDUCATORS

The president of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE) took advantage of his trip to Spain in order to partake in other meetings with leading members from other Spanish educational institutions, including the director of Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, Antonio Basanta; the director of Centro de Estudios Constitucionales y Políticos de Madrid, María del Carmen Iglesias; Arturo García-Arroyo, director of Fundación Ciencia y Tecnología; the rector of Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Rafael Puyol-Antolín, and the director general of the Spain's National Library, Luis Racionero.

Further, the ex-president of the Dominican Republic met with Joaquín Estefanía, ex-director of the prestigious Spanish newspaper El País and director of the School of Journalism of Universidad Autónoma de Madrid / El País.

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