Santo Domingo, Jul 14 (Prensa Latina) President Leonel Fernandez rejected suggestions the Dominican Republic is "a failed state", as well as any international attempts to interfere in its domestic affairs.



President Fernandez was responding to a recent feature in Foreign Policy Magazine relying on assessments by Fondo para la Paz that lists the Dominican Republic along with Haiti among the top 20 failed states.



Whilst admitting that like the rest of Latin America, his country is weak and fragile, the Dominican head of state called such a description an undeserved "overstatement".



He also claimed the feature is an effort to link his country with Haiti, and warned the international community that he will not accept joint solutions for both countries because their realities are quite different.



On addressing an international event on Ethics and Corruption Sanction and Prevention, Fernandez recalled that the passage from dictatorial regimes throughout Latin America in the 80s and 90s involved very difficult conditions, of deep economic and social crisis.



He acknowledged a certain level of disillusionment amongst the population, but said it is a gross exaggeration to describe the mere existence of political volatility and instability as therefore constituting a failed or non-existent state.



He added that accepting that description invites outside intervention, as it implies the international community should interfere to make it a successful state.