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Panama President José Raúl Mulino rejected negotiations Owned by the Panama Canal, Faced with President Trump’s fixation in the United States that the commercial water route is returned.
Mulino’s observations come to a Visit this weekend By the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, who has asked Panama to launch a company based in Hong Kong that operates two ports on both sides the channeldescribing — as a National Interest of the United States.
“It’s impossible, I can’t negotiate,” said Mulino when asked Returning the canal In the US control, during a press conference on Thursday. “This is done. The canal belongs to Panama. “”
Mulino said he hopes to talk to the United States about issues such as immigration, security and the fight against drug trafficking.
“The only thing I want is to erase all the trash on the road, to clean the table and be able to talk to the United States and very frankly,” he said, According to Associated Press.
Trump has made his calls to resume the panama channel One of his priority foreign policy problems in his first days, criticizing the 1977 postman’s decision to sell the channel built in the United States in Panama; It was smoked at high traffic prices and headed against Chinese companies operating key ports on the water road.
Rubio, in a recent interview with The Megyn Kelly Show, said that he will go to Mulino with a “solution” to the worries of the United States of the presence of Chinese companies on the channel. Rubio accuses the business of being under the direction of the Chinese government and has increased the risk that companies could close their water.
“If the government of China in a conflict tells them to close the Panama channel and, in fact, I have zero doubts that they have contingency planning to make it,” said Rubio.
“We cannot allow any foreign power, especially China, to maintain this type of potential control over what they do,” he added.
The Secretary of State also called Panama “generally pro-
