2024-01-09 20:12:20
President Gustavo Petro announced this Tuesday, after the summit he called at the Casa de Nariño to save the headquarters of the Barranquilla 2027 Pan American Games, that he will travel to Chile to speak directly with the president of the Executive Committee of Panam Sports and thereby try to reverse its decision to remove the headquarters from the country due to non-compliance with the agreed payments to said organization.
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“I am going to go to the Republic of Chile to visit the scientific ship that is already arriving in Antarctica and, using that trip, we will make a stopover to speak directly with the president of the Executive Committee and the Olympic Committee of that nation,” he said. the president at the end of the summit.
The president also clarified that the eight million dollars that must be paid to the organization for the granting of rights to host the Pan American Games in Barranquilla “are ready and could be transferred at any time if the party to the agreement so deems it.” ”.
“There is no problem in allocating the resources that are needed,” added the president.
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