The US Embassy in Panama announced that from March 24, three American helicopters and two transport aircraft will come to this country to take part in humanitarian aid programs in distant regions of the country and conduct joint exercises on security.
A small representation of US aviation – three Black -Hawk helicopters and two C -17 Globmaster aircraft adapted to provide medical assistance of civilians – will take part in joint maneuvers organized by the US government together with the Panamama government next week.
Exercises will start on March 24. On Friday, the Americans were communicated on Friday by the United States Embassy in Panama.
Black-Hawk helicopters will take part in the maneuvers in PanamaX/Usembpan
These maneuvers – comment on the above announcement of the Spanish EFE and Latin American media agency – were announced a few days after Pentagon He denied that there were to be changes in the military presence of the United States in Panama.
It is expressed, among others in undertaking various types of joint military exercises in order to perform priority tasks in the field of national security formulated by the president Donald Trump.
Dispute about the Panama Canal
President Trump claimed that the Panama channel is controlled by Chinaa United Stateswhich built it at the beginning of the last century and administered it for over 80 years – until its takeover by the Panama State on December 21, 1999 – they intend to recover it.
Panama is a country that in 1990 – after the invasion carried out a year earlier by the United States – dissolved its armed forces and there is no US military bases (which guarantees the Panamsko -American Treaty from 1977 signed by the presidents of Carter and Torrjos).
President Panama, Jose Raul Mulino, rejected the theorem of President Donald Trump that the Panama Canal remains under the control of China, based on the fact that China – through their operator from Hong Kong – is supposed to control two of five ports existing on the channel.
Mulino assured that he would strive to “maintain relations between mutual respect” with the United States, which are “the main trade partner and political ally of Panama, and issues of security and combating organized crime, terrorism, illegal immigration and drug trafficking should have priority in Panamsko-American relations.”
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