Dominican Republic joins the International Renewable Energies Agency

The Dominican Republic today joined the International Renewable Energies Agency (IRENA), which promotes energetic sources such as alternatives to fossil fuels, issue which Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales called "a new paradigm of the United Nations."

The country became the entity’s 80th member on January 26 in the original conference of Bonn, four months after the preparatory meeting was held in Madrid.

"It’s a fundamental organization for the impulse of renewables, which as well, is one of the new energy paradigms of the set of the United Nations," the Dominican official said when he met in Berlin with his German par, Heinrich Tiemann.

Together with Dominican Republic, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, Panama, Costa Rica and El Salvador among others countries, belong to the agency, which Morales said bolsters the future of the region’s energy development.

IRENA is the fruit of a German initiative, and Spain and Denmark soon joined the agency which promotes renewable energies around the world and helps surmount the obstacles to their development.