SANTO DOMINGO.- President Leonel Fernandez and Puerto Rico governor Luis Fortuño Wednesday agreed on strategies to more effectively combat drug trafficking and on an energy integration project via a submerged cable in the Caribbean, to improve the systems of energy and lower its prices in both countries,.

Among the other agreements figure the resumption of the ferry service and trade that may include Haiti, for which the two leaders formed commissions to follow-up the accords reached during the more than one hour meeting in the National Palace.

Fernandez, speaking to the press in the Ambassadors Hall of the National Palace hailed the agreements. “What we’ve done is to bolster the Puerto Rico-Dominican Republic strategic alliance in diverse scopes of mutual cooperation in trade, education, security, energy, science and technology. In each of these areas we formed sub commissions to widen the proposals."

He said the proposals include implementation of an energy project for the Caribbean that now requires feasibility studies, which in his view benefit both nations.

In the press conference in which vice president Rafael Alburquerque also participated, among other senior officials, Fortuño affirmed that the energy project would lower prices and guarantee the service.