https://www.newsweek.com/panamas-president-denies-deal-us-ships-use-canal-free-2027245
巴拿马总统何塞・劳尔・穆利诺驳斥了美国国务院关于巴拿马同意允许美国军舰免费通过巴拿马运河的说法。
美国国务院周三在 X 上的一篇推文中表示，“美国政府船只现在可以免费通过巴拿马运河，每年为美国政府节省数百万美元。‘’
穆利诺在周四的每周新闻发布会上说，“我完全拒绝昨天这一声明。” 他和他的政府都没有权力免除巴拿马运河管理局设定的运河费用。
巴拿马运河管理局周三在一份声明中表示，没有对收费进行调整。
穆利诺说，美国的声明 “真的让我感到惊讶，因为他们正在从美国总统领导下管理美国外交政策的部门做出重要的正式声明。 这是无法接受的”。
Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino refuted the U.S. State Department’s assertion that Panama had agreed to permit U.S. warships to pass through the Panama Canal for free.
On Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that “U.S. government vessels can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees, saving the U.S. government millions of dollars a year.”
“I completely reject that statement yesterday,” Mulino said during his weekly press conference Thursday, saying that neither he nor his government had had the power to waive canal fees, which are set by the Panama Canal Authority.
The Panama Canal Authority said in a statement on X Wednesday that no adjustments had been made to charges.
Mulino said the U.S. statement “really surprises me because they’re making an important, institutional statement from the entity that governs United States foreign policy under the president of the United States based on a falsity. And that’s intolerable.”
