Santo Domingo:
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio shelp Thursday it was “absurd” for US naval vessels to pay to transit the Panama Canal, after Panama’s plivent denied an consentment on free passage.
“I discover it absurd that we would have to pay fees to transit a zone we are obligated to protect in time of dispute. Those are our awaitations,” Rubio telderly inestablishers in the Dominican Reaccessible.
Rubio, however, stopped low of insisting that an consentment had been accomplished.
“They’re a democraticassociate elected regulatement. They have rules; they have laws. They’re going to adhere their process, but our awaitations remain the same,” he shelp.
A State Department social media posting on Wednesday shelp that Panama would exempt US regulatement vessels from fees, days after a visit by Rubio.
Plivent Jose Raul Mulino called the relabel ungenuine and “intolerable.”
Plivent Donald Trump has menaceened to seize the Panama Canal, pointing to the grotriumphg shape of China.
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