Abinader, accompanied by his wife, Raquel Benítez, and the President of the State, Eduardo Estrella, was seen off at the international airport by Defense Minister, Lieutenant General Carlos Luciano Díaz.

The president will arrive in that city through the John F. Kennedy International Airport and will be received by the Dominican consul there, Eligio Jáquez, and the ambassador of the Caribbean nation in the United States, Sonia Guzmán.

According to the official agenda, a commission from the Senior Management of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) will receive him at the hotel.

Tomorrow he will participate in a breakfast with the Sectionals and Consuls and later he will lead the signing of an agreement for the promulgation of the Driver’s License Law, an activity coordinated by the Governor of the State of New York, Kathy Hochul.

He will also preside over the act of handing over the keys for homes to Dominicans residing in that northern nation, which will take place at the Dominican consulate.

Later, the head of state will go to Inwood Hill Park for a meeting and photograph with the children of the oldest baseball children’s league in Manhattan.

He will then be recognized by active and retired police officers at Columbia University Alumni Hall and meet with Northeastern elected officials in Bakersfield.

In his last activity of the day, he will be at the ceremony of delivery of certificates by the National Institute for Residents Abroad, in the Student Hall of Columbia University.

A meeting of the president with the community of Dominicans residing in New York is scheduled for Sunday.

In the afternoon, he will participate in the Dominican Parade in Manhattan, the most important held by the diaspora.

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