The Director General of the Dominican Institute of Civil Aviation (IDAC), Igor Rodríguez Durán, began his official activities at the head of the institution by participating in the Fourteenth Navigation Conference of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which is being held from August 26 to September 6, whose central focus is on improving performance, to promote sustainability.
The conference's days of discussions and proposals seek to reach a global consensus on the performance improvement initiatives that can best help the international organization, member states, and the industry to solve the environmental problems facing global aviation and the rapid evolution of aviation operations and technologies.
The head of the IDAC showed interest in each of the topics being discussed at this important meeting, in which representatives of the 39 member states participate, in addition to delegations from countries that are not part of the entity that governs international civil aviation, but which, like the Dominican Republic, pursue the same objective: to provide reliable and pollution-free air navigation and operational safety in the world.
“This activity, organized by ICAO, commits us as a country and, as head of IDAC, to ensure that our aeronautical system maintains and complies with international standards, focused on a more environmentally friendly civil aviation, to be vigilant and demanding with operators, technicians and air supervisors, and with all actors in the Dominican air activity,” said Rodríguez.
This fourteenth conference also contemplates the opportunity to hold detailed technical exchanges, which will allow agreements to be reached on a series of high-level recommendations in the areas of air navigation and operational safety.
Given the prominence of environmental issues on the aviation agenda and the need to agree on strategic air navigation and operational safety plans based on the agreements reached at the 41st session of the Assembly, the conference seeks to promote an intentional reorientation of efforts, so that priority is given to existing or new technical activities that best contribute to achieving the ambitious long-term goal forinternational aviation.
The recommendations will be submitted for approval by the Council, and where appropriate, the endorsement of the 42nd session of the Assembly in 2025 will be sought.
The Dominican delegation is headed by Igor Rodríguez, in his capacity as director general of IDAC, accompanied by Ambassador Julio Peña, permanent representative of the Dominican Republic to ICAO; Héctor Porcella, president of the Civil Aviation Board (JAC); Antonio Yapor, alternate representative and member of the JAC, and technical officials from IDAC.
