Panama's President Jose Raul Mulino has refused to negotiate the Panama Canal's ownership in the face of President Trump's United States sticking to the capture of trade waterways.
Murino's remarks will be prior to visiting this weekend by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Marco Rubio seeks Panama to drive out a company based in Hong Kong, which runs two ports on both sides of the canal, and explains it as a core national interest in the United States.
“It's impossible, I can't negotiate,” Mulino said at a press conference on Thursday to return the canal to US control. “It's done. The canal belongs to Panama.”
Mulino said he would like to talk to the United States about problems such as immigration, security, and the fight against drug trafficking.
“The only thing I want is to clear all garbage from the road, clean the table, and talk to the United States,” he said.
Trump has decided to seize one of his priority foreign policy issues in the first few days of taking over the Panama Canal, and decide to sell the 1977 carter administration to Panama. I criticized it. We opposed a Chinese company that was smoked at the high transport price and operates an important port in the waterway.
In a recent interview with the Megin Kelly Show, Rubio told Murino that he intends to work on a solution to US concerns about the presence of Chinese companies on the canal. Rubio has accused companies under the instructions of the Chinese government, raising the risk that companies can close their waterways.
“If the Chinese government tells you that the Chinese government will close the Panama Canal, I have no doubt that there is an accidental plan for them to do so,” Rubio said. 。
“We cannot allow foreign power, especially China, to maintain potential control that they do,” he added.
The Secretary of State is also called Panama, and is called “parent American” and “There are many things that can cooperate with them very positive about migration, and all kinds may be very useful. “
