City Panama – President Panama José Raúl Mulino has accused US President Donald Trump to lie down when he told the Congress that his administration “recovered” canal panama.
Trump referred to a Job announced on Tuesday For a consortium led by the American investment management company Blackrock Inc. To purchase a control stake in the company that held a Chinese group that operates in ports at both ends of the Panama canal.
Panama claims to have complete control over the channel based on Hong Kong, no Chinese control over waterway, and therefore, the US company would not represent any American “return” of the channel. Panam government called the private transaction on Tuesday.
Mulino in the message published on Xu Wednesday, was denied that the agreement was created due to the pressure of us. “I rejected on behalf of Panama and all Panamanians who innocent the truth and our dignity as a nation,” he wrote. He accused Trump of “again lying.”
Trump discussed the re-transferation of the panama channel from his campaign, claiming that the United States should never convert control towards Panamanics and that they were overpayed for that.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Mulina in early February and insisted that China was influenced by China over channel operations. The focus was a Chinese consortium that leads ports. Panama rejected China had an impact on channel surgery.
“The cooperation of our governments pass through clear understanding regarding the issue of mutual interest,” Mulino wrote. “It has nothing to do with the” reclaimed channel “or the tarying of our national sovereignty.”
In the application, CK Hutchison said on Tuesday to sell all shares in Huttchison Luct Holdings in Hutchison Port Group Group in a black-co-cover consortium in agreement from almost $ 23 billion, including $ 5 billion.
The deal must be approved by the Panama government.
The United States was built by the channel in the early 1900s, because it looked for ways to facilitate the transit of commercial and military vessels between its shores. Washington renounced the waterway control to Panama 31. December 1999, under the contract signed in 1977. president Jimmy Carter. Trump claimed that Carter was “foolish” to the channel.
Frank Sixt, the final director of CK Hutchison, said that the transaction was “the result of a quick, discreet, but a competitive process in which numerous offers and expressions of interest were received.”
“I would like to emphasize that the transaction is clearly commercial in nature and are fully related to recent reports on political news related to Panama ports,” Sixt said.
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2025-03-05 18:30:00
