Panama on Monday rejected Donald Trump’s pledge that the US can be “taking again” the Panama Canal.
Panama Metropolis:
Panama on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s pledge that the US can be “taking again” the Panama Canal, saying the important thing interoceanic waterway would stay underneath its management.
“I need to comprehensively reject the phrases of President Donald Trump,” President Jose Raul Mulino stated in an announcement revealed on social media.
“The canal is and can stay Panama’s,” he added, dismissing Trump’s declare that China is working the canal.
“There isn’t any presence of any nation on the earth that interferes,” Mulino stated.
The canal was constructed by the US and opened in 1914.
It was handed to Panama on December 31, 1999, underneath treaties signed some 20 years earlier by then-US president Jimmy Carter and Panamanian nationalist chief Omar Torrijos.
(Apart from the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is revealed from a syndicated feed.)