Santo Domingo. – Dominican Republic’s top diplomat yesterday said each nation must evaluate its own activities without anyone coming to offer reports, and asked the United States no to interfere in the country’s internal affairs, because Dominican Republic doesn’t issue reports on that nation’s corruption.

Foreign Relations minister Carlos Morales, who was accused of being U.S. citizen when he was Vice President in the late 1980s, said the country fights corruption today more than ever.

He noted that president Leonel Fernandez had already dealt with the issue publicly before the U.S. State Department’s report on drug trafficking, which stressed that Dominican Republic’s “endemic” corruption prevents a successful effort against it.

The official, interviewed during the first seminar for Dominican suppliers who want to take part in Haiti’s reconstruction with the UN’s participation, said in the wake of the global financial crisis very few of those responsible have been arrested in the U.S., whose justice is said to be slow but sure, it would be important “that they also act faster.”