Preside of Panama: We do not allow the use of our soil for military activity against Venezuela
Referring to the US military actions against Venezuela, the Preside of Panama said that Panama will not allow its territory to be used for any hostile military activity against Venezuela.
According to RCO News Agency, While the shadow of a military conflict is over Venezuela, the US Gerald Ford aircraft carrier task force has eered the Latin American region and Venezuela has warned of armed resistance.
“Panama will not allow its territory to be used for any hostile military activity against Venezuela,” Panamanian Preside Jose Raul Molino said in his press conference on Thursday.
Molino emphasized that the joi exercises with American forces are only under existing bilateral cooperation agreemes and have nothing to do with the escalation of tension between Washington and Caracas.
“As for Venezuela, we have nothing to do with it,” he noted. “Panama does not make its territory available for any hostile action against Venezuela or any coury in the world.”
US Preside Donald Trump ordered the dispatch of this ship last moh; This action added to a series of eight warships, a nuclear submarine and F-35 fighter jets in the Caribbean Sea.
The Ford, which was commissioned in 2017, is the newest and largest aircraft carrier in the United States and the world, and serves more than five thousand sailors.
In a stateme confirming the arrival of this ship, which was first published by “Reuters” News agency, the Peagon claimed that this operation was carried out with the aim of “disrupting drug trafficking and weakening and destroying transnational criminal organizations.”
Venezuelan Preside Nicolás Maduro has repeatedly indicated that the increase in US military presence in the region is aimed at “overthrow” him.
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