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Spain-Panama hat summit in order to ask for a block of the work of widening of the channel of Panama hat
Spanish minister Pastor has assured that consortium GUPC has been engaged to that all its demands follow the contractual way
January 7, 2014
The Spanish minister to the economic Development, Ana Pastor, has assured the participation of the government of Madrid so that an agreement between the parts is reached that allows to in recent days carry to term the works of widening of the channel of Panama hat asking for the eventual block of the work threatened from the consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC) in case of lacked acknowledgment additional costs for beyond 1,6 billion dollars ( on 2 January 2014).
Yesterday to Panama hat, in an encounter with the president of the Central American nation, Ricardo Martinelli, minister Pastor has confirmed that the parts "will sit down in order to speak and to discuss to the aim to try to resolve the problems". Moreover Ana Pastor has specified that consortium GUPC has been engaged to that all its demands follow the contractual way. In the course of the encounter with Martinelli the Spanish minister has emphasized that "the problem between the group of enterprises of the consortium that is constructing the channel and the Authority of Channel" not only has an impact on Panama hat and Spain, but on all the Countries of the world because - it has found - "the opening of the channel of Panama hat will mark first and after in international the marine transport".
Ricardo Martinelli has rimarcato that "the parts can from each other resolve eventual existing conflicts in the within of the contract, from the moment that - it has emphasized the Panamanian president - the thing more important is that this is a project of total importance and interest of all and therefore must be carried to term in the previewed time". Also Martinelli has been said trusting that the encounter between the parts "can resolve the conflicts".
To the reunion they have participated for the Panamanian part also the secretary of state for the Latin America, Jesús Gracia, the minister to the Presidency, Roberto Henriquez, and the chief executive officer of the Authority of the Channel of Panama hat let alone minister for the Transactions of the Channel, Roberto Roy, and for the Spanish part the ambassador of Spain to Panama hat, Jesús Silva.
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The Spanish minister to the economic Development, Ana Pastor, has assured the participation of the government of Madrid so that an agreement between the parts is reached that allows to in recent days carry to term the works of widening of the channel of Panama hat asking for the eventual block of the work threatened from the consortium Grupo Unidos por el Canal (GUPC) in case of lacked acknowledgment additional costs for beyond 1,6 billion dollars 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
