With the royalty     Elect president Daniel Ortega also received the visit of Prince de Asturias, Felipe de Borbón and of the contralor of the Russian Federation, Sergey Vadimovich Stepashin. The representative of the Spanish royalty said that full of hope a mandate that has raised to much expectation and much interest, and besides to wish much success him to Ortega, offered its support to him.

The elect President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, reiterated yesterday his decision to continue working by the fortification of the relations between his country and the town of Taiwan.

“With the crossing of the presidential control we hoped to continue working with its town and its country, in the fortification of the relations in all the aspects”, said Ortega to the President of that Asian island, Chen Shui-bian, with that met last night.

Ortega gave to the Taiwanese governor a warm welcome in this third visit that does to Nicaragua.

“We are very contentments of which they are at this moment in which we hoped to continue working to eradicate the poverty. Our commitment is peace, work and reconciliation”, said Ortega in the appointment that was developed in the General Secretariat of the Sandinista Front of Liberación Nacional (FSLN).

The Taiwanese Chief of State, by his side, affirmed that she felt extremely pleased to head the delegation to attend the ceremony of investiture of Ortega.

The Taiwanese agent chief executive said, in addition, to feel identified with the policies and the objectives of government settled down by Ortega and added to be arranged to continue collaborating in the economic and social development of Nicaragua.

Chen Shui-bian arrived accompanied by a retinue from more than 200 people, integrated by civil employees of its government, private industralists and journalists of different mass media from the Asian country.

also with EE.UU. delegation

Ortega also met with a North American delegation headed by Mike Leavitt, Human secretary of Health and Services of the United States, to that accompanied the assistant secretary by State for Subjects of the Western Hemisphere, Thomas Shannon, and the executive director of the corporation of Cuenta of the Millenium, John J. Danilovich, in addition to the North American ambassador in Nicaragua, Paul Trivelli.

Ortega said to Leavitt that spoke by telephone with president George W. Bush and who “was a very good and very positive conversation”. The elect President added that “there is disposition to continue working together in the combat against the poverty, because that is the great challenge”.

Leavitt asserted that “we shared the commitment his to alleviate the poverty and hoped to be able to continue working you along with you stop the economic well-being of Nicaragua”.

In the encounter with the North American delegation she was present Arturo Cruz, who will exert the function of ambassador of Nicaragua in Washington.

To Ortega they accompanied Bayardo Maple, Samuel Santos, Rosario Murillo and Mohamed Lasthar, Nicaraguan of Libyan origin.