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or elsewhere, voluntarily, through concessions, third parties or associations, shall ensure that all such
proposed contracts are equitable, and upon being proven to be equitable, are scrupulously enforced;
furthermore, it shall ensure that the transport, egress, and settlement of said immigrants conforms to
humanitarian principles on the basis of health and safety; and lastly, it shall severely punish any fraud
committed against them, providing the aggrieved parties whenever such fraud is recognized, in order
to afford them the appropriate compensation.”
Article 10. This act shall be ratified alongside the aforementioned treaty, and said ratifications shall be
finalized within one year of this act being presented, thus modifying Article 30 of the aforementioned
treaty.
Source: José Gabriel García,
Obras Completas
, vol. 3 (Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación,
Banco de Reservas, Editora Amigo del Hogar, 2016), 409.
1898
•
After many months of negotiations, and toward the end of Ulises Heureaux’s dictatorship, Ital-
ian-Dominican diplomatic relations were formalized.
1903
•
Juan Elías Moscoso is sent to Italy as minister plenipotentiary. He is tasked with convincing Italy to
negotiate the rate at which the Dominican government would indemnify its Italian citizens. An agreement
favorable to Italy is reached on July 4. Moscoso and the Italian representative O. Savina sign the agreement.
President Alejandro Woss y Gil ratifies it on July 9, via Resolution 4407.
1903
•
A new treaty on navigation and commerce is signed. With it, the stipulations of the treaty of 1886 are
reinstated. It is signed by Fidelio Despradel and O. Savina and ratified by President Woss y Gil via Resolution
No. 4312 on July 16.
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS. PART ONE. NOTES FOR A CHRONOLOGY: 1844-2017
Presentation of
credentials by H.E.
Andrea Canepari,
Ambassador of Italy
to His Excellency
the President of the
Dominican Republic,
Mr. Danilo Medina,
on October 26, 2017.
In the picture, Her
Excellency the Vice
President of the
Republic, Margarita
Cedeño de Fernández,
and His Excellency the
Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Miguel
Vargas, in the Hall of
Ambassadors of the
National Palace.
© Presidency of the
Dominican Republic