‘Russia reaffirms its obligations to respect the everlasting neutrality of the Panama Canal,’ the official mentioned.
A high Russian official on Tuesday warned the Trump administration towards taking up the Panama Canal after the president said in his inaugural tackle that he meant to regain management of the strategic waterway.
“Russia has been a celebration to the protocol since 1988 and reaffirms its obligations to respect the everlasting neutrality of the Panama Canal, advocating for holding this worldwide transit waterway secure and open,” Shchetinin mentioned, including that the canal legally belongs to Panama.
Trump has mentioned that Chinese language entities are working the canal, which he mentioned is unacceptable. In his inauguration speech on the U.S. Capitol on Monday, Trump once more spoke concerning the canal.
“American ships are being severely overcharged … and above all, China is working the Panama Canal, and we didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it again,” he mentioned.
Responding to Trump’s earlier feedback, Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino, in a video launched on social media in December 2024, rejected arguments that america may reassert management over the canal.
Trump has additionally steered that america may take management over Greenland, the world’s largest island positioned within the North Atlantic that’s at the moment a part of Denmark’s territory.
Talking to reporters on Monday as he signed government orders within the White Home, the president mentioned he believes Denmark will “come alongside” on the doable sale of Greenland to america.
“Greenland is a superb place. We’d like honest, worldwide safety, and I’m certain that Denmark will come alongside, I believe. It’s costing them some huge cash to keep up it, to maintain it,” he mentioned.