Panaman President Jose Raul Mulino said today that he would not discuss the control of the Panama Canal with the US Secretary of State Marco Rubi, who should visit this weekend, which will be his first official visit abroad.
Mulino said that in a weekly press conference after US President Donald Trump threatened to take control of the Panama channel, claiming to manage China. The Panama Government is determined to deny it.
“I can’t negotiate, let alone open the process of negotiating the channel,” Mulino said. “That question is concluded. The channel belongs to Panama.” Channel Dugim 82 kilometers manages the independent Panama Agency oversee the Panama Government.
The United States was built by the channel in early 20. century and handed control of Panama in 1999, two decades after the agreement signed that guarantee his permanent neutrality. Trump claims that this agreement is violated and that China controls the channel because there are soldiers there. The evidence did not exit it.
The US president claims that now pays too much for the transit canal. “I did not receive absolutely no information from the American Embassy in Panama, nor by the State Secretary with which we cooperate in migration issues, the alleged military presence of another country in the canal,” Mulino said. “The panam channel controls Panama and the management of it was always in Panama’s hands,” he concluded.
(Vijesti.ba)
