President Panama: The Panama Channel belongs to Panama

President Panama President Jose Raul Mulino, referring to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to Panama, said: “There will be no talk about controlling the Panama Canal.”

Rubio will travel to Panama in the coming days.

According to the English Magazine, Molino’s remarks at a weekly press conference after Donald Trump threatened to take control of the channel and claimed the channel was run by China. The Panama government strongly denies the allegation.

“I can’t negotiate, and I can’t even open the process of negotiating the channel,” Molino said. This is sealed. This channel belongs to Panama. “

The Panama Canal is a 2 -kilometer waterway that connects the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean and is the key to world trade currents run by the Panama Canal.

The United States made the channel in the early twentieth century and took control of it in Panama in year 6.

But Trump, claiming that China controls the channel and that Chinese soldiers are there, said the treaty would “retake back in control of Panama and the United States and the United States” will “recover.”

“I have not received any information from the US Embassy in Panama and not the Secretary of State about the alleged military presence of another country on the channel,” Molino added.

“The Panama channel is under the control of Panama and its administration has always been in Panama’s hand,” he said.

Panama said that Panama has other issues such as immigration and drug trafficking to talk to Rubio.

Asked whether Panama could eliminate the privileges of China -related companies, he said the issue was not on the table, stating that the government was waiting for the results of auditing to pay Chinese companies to the United States.

“Panama is not a country that destroys the rules and violates the rules,” Molino added. If I do this because they are Chinese companies or because someone asked me to do so and eliminate concessions, this is not the way we want to be a country for foreign investors. Create. Panama respects the rule of law. “

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