President Bernardo Arévalo stated on June 13 that for the second he has canceled the journey he had deliberate for Europe, because of the state of affairs that was generated by the APM Terminals challenge and the method of closing operations.
The president participated in a press convention in regards to the rain state of affairs within the nation and through the spherical of questions he was requested if because of this case he may cancel the journey and at last he stated sure.
“Concerning the journey, there are two issues, the Authorities is a workforce and the groups must operate in an built-in method in several circumstances. To assume that as a result of somebody, who’s the pinnacle of a workforce, is just not there, the workforce is just not going to work, is to assume that we’re not constructing the mandatory groups and this Authorities has groups of all types,” President Arévalo first responded.
He added that the concept that if a minister, a president, a governor or a mayor leaves, issues cease working is just not the case, and that they cease working when there are not any environment friendly governments and that this one is environment friendly.
He talked regarding that in keeping with the Political Structure of the Republic of Guatemala, the route of the State’s international coverage corresponds to the President of the Republic.
“The president has two specific powers, that are international coverage and nationwide protection, and within the train of this international coverage energy, participations which might be essential within the growth of Guatemala’s worldwide relations are deliberate and programmed.”
Arévalo stated that on the journey to Europe he was going to attend three occasions: the primary was the assembly of heads of State and Authorities in Switzerland, to debate the peace challenge for Ukraine; The second is a world convention on transparency the place he had been invited as a essential speaker and the third was a go to to Pope Francis to present him an invite to journey to Guatemala.
Droop journey
“Not due to the rains and different points, however due to the APM challenge that requires a sequence of essential conferences and selections within the coming days, I’ve determined to cancel, more than likely, the journey to those occasions,” Arévalo said.
He added that they are going to be sending the invitation to Pope Francis and that the chancellor, Carlos Ramiro Martínez, will attend the assembly on the problem of Ukraine, and in addition the transparency assembly, to which Santiago Palomo, commissioner in opposition to Corruption, may even attend.
“If the circumstances change through the course of in the present day -this Thursday-, within the sense that we all know that the personal sector put in place a safety, and if the CC -Constitutional Court docket grants this safety, it might generate circumstances for me to journey, however for the second the journey is canceled,” Arévalo talked regarding.
Arévalo was going to journey to Europe on Friday, June 14 and would return to the nation on the twenty first of the identical month, in keeping with the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency.
APM Terminals
The Quetzal Port Firm reported in an announcement, on June 10, that the cancellation of the contract with APM Terminals had been ordered and subsequently it needed to shut operations in Guatemala, however this has not but been finalized, regardless of the most recent notifications that affirm the lawsuit that the Legal professional Basic’s Workplace (PGN) gained in 2016, the corporate may resort to actions that might nonetheless delay the execution of the sentence.
He defined that the Fifth Chamber of the Administrative Litigation Court docket notified him “of the orders that resolved the appeals by which the sentence dated October 16, 2017 issued by that jurisdictional Chamber was nonetheless pending to change into ultimate.”
“In that ruling, the Chamber declared absolutely the nullity of the onerous usufruct contracts, their modification and the operations contract signed with APM Terminals Quetzal, Sociedad Anónima (initially these signed with Terminal de Conteneres Quetzal, Sociedad Anónima). As such, respecting the authorized framework, the Quetzal Port Firm will take all actions to attenuate the impression on Guatemala’s worldwide maritime commerce, in favor of the pursuits of our firm and customers,” the assertion learn.
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