By Le Figaro with AFP
Published
January 22 at 7:30 a.m.,
updated January 22 at 8:12 a.m.
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In his inauguration speech on Monday, the American president reiterated his threat to “take back” control of the Panama Canal.
The Panamanian government expressed this Tuesday, January 21 to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres its concern over the stated intention of American President Donald Trump to seize the Panama Canal. In a letter sent to Guterres, Panama’s mission to the UN said Trump’s statements during his inauguration ceremony on Monday “are of concern”.
-“We request your good offices to transmit this communication to the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council”of which Panama has been a member since January 1, underlines the letter, distributed to the press by the Panamanian government. In his inauguration speech on Monday, Donald Trump reiterated his threat to “to resume” control of the Panama Canal, a waterway between the Atlantic and the Pacific built by the United States, inaugurated in 1914 and transferred to Panama in 1999.
“We have been very mistreated by this senseless gift that should never have been given. The promise Panama made to us was not kept.he declared, asserting that the American ships were “severely overtaxed”. “And above all, China exploits the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama. And we’re going to take it back.”he asserted, without specifying how.
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