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Panama complains to UN over Trump's canal threat, starts audit

US President Donald Trump gestures as he leaves after speaking in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on January 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. [AFP]

Panama has complained to the United Nations over US President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway.

In a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the government in Panama City referred to an article of the UN Charter precluding any member from "the threat or use of force" against the territorial integrity or political independence of another.

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