Panama Leader
Visiting Spain
Madrid - Panama
President Martin
Torrijos initiated
Sunday a three-day
official visit to
Madrid, Spain, invited
by the Kings of Spain
Juan Carlos and Sofia.
The President of the
Central American country
is scheduled to meet
with the Monarch, and
with Spanish government
Leader Jose Luis
Rodriguez Zapatero on
Tuesday.
He will also meet with
leaders of the Spanish
Confederation of the
employers´
organizations, of Madrid
City Council, the Senate
and the Chamber of
Deputies.
According to Panama
sources, one of the
issues Torrijos will
tackle during
conversations are
related with the hope of
removing Panama from the
Spanish list of
countries considered as
a tax heaven.
The possible
participation of
companies of Spain in
the construction of a
new lock system for the
Panama Canal, estimated
at five billion dollars
is another point to
mention there.
The President is
accompanied by his wife
Vivian Fernandez,
Foreign Minister Samuel
Lewis Navarro, Vice
Minister Carlos Garcia,
and the national
secretary of Science and
Technology Julio
Escobar. |
