The Nicaraguan government occupied in the last hours the building that belonged to the Taiwanese embassy in Managua and other assets of that closed diplomatic headquarters to hand them over to the government of China, with which it reestablished relations at the beginning of this month.
In a statement issued on Sunday night, the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic confirmed press versions that assured that the authorities had taken possession of the vacated diplomatic headquarters on December 23, two weeks after the government of Daniel Ortega severed relations with Taipei
The decision came after a spokesman for the Catholic Church revealed to a local media that the Taiwanese government had donated the aforementioned building, located in a luxurious area of the capital.
“The recognition of a single China implies the immediate registration of all real estate, furniture, equipment and resources in favor of the recognized State, the People’s Republic of China, with absolute and unrestricted ownership and domain,” said the statement published on the official website. The 19 Digital.
He added that, therefore, “there is no room for transactions, transfers or transfers (among these, supposed donations) whose intention only evidences the illegal and voracious nature of those who try with maneuvers and subterfuges to appropriate the property of others.”
The vicar of the Archdiocese of Managua, Monsignor Carlos Avilés, had told the newspaper La Prensa that before leaving the country “all his property, including the building, (the Taiwanese diplomats) offered it to the Archdiocese and the Archdiocese told him that there was no problem, but they are still in those legal questions of the transfer “.
In a statement on its website, the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs “strongly condemned the seriously illicit actions of the Ortega regime” by ordering that its embassy in Nicaragua “withdraw within two weeks, which does not correspond to the international practice and ignores the provisions of international law ”. It added that it “also condemns the arbitrary obstruction by the Nicaraguan government of the token sale of its property to the Catholic Church in Nicaragua.”
Ortega unexpectedly severed relations with Taipei on December 9 and the following day reestablished them with Beijing, with whose government he had maintained close diplomatic ties during the first Sandinista administration (1979-1990). The official argument was that Managua recognizes the existence of “one China.”
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