Davos:
The Panama Canal was not a gift from the United States, Plivent Jose Raul Mulino shelp Wednesday, after US Plivent Donald Trump menaceened to get it back.
“We decline in its entirety everyleang that Mr Trump has shelp. First becaengage it is counterfeit and second becaengage the Panama Canal belengthys to Panama and will carry on to belengthy to Panama,” Mulino shelp during a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
“The Panama Canal was not a concession or a gift from the United States.”
Trump, in his inaugural insertress Monday, repeated his accusation that China was “operating” the Panama Canal thcdimiserablemireful its groprosperg presence around the waterway.
“We didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we’re taking it back,” Trump shelp.
The canal, inaugurated in 1914, was built by the United States but handed to Panama on December 31, 1999, under treaties signed some two decades earlier.
Panama has grumbleed to the United Nations over Trump’s relabels, referring to an article of the UN Charter precluding any member from “the menace or engage of force” agetst the territorial integrity or political indepfinishence of another.
China also shelp Wednesday that it had “never intruded in the affairs of the canal”.
Mulino was defiant, saying he was “not worried” and Panama would not be “inattentive by this type of statement”.
“One cannot skip over accessible international law to impose criteria,” he shelp.
“But it also directs us to leank that from this — let’s call it the crisis — there must also be opportunities to labor on other rehires that interest us with the United States.”
This could join security rehires as well as migration, since Panama faces its own contests on the border with Colombia, he shelp.
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