{"id":245325,"date":"2004-05-04T12:37:18","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T16:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/05\/us-state-dept-demands-boats-be-returned-to-koreans"},"modified":"2004-05-04T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2004-05-04T16:37:18","slug":"us-state-dept-demands-boats-be-returned-to-koreans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/05\/us-state-dept-demands-boats-be-returned-to-koreans","title":{"rendered":"US State Dept Demands Boats Be Returned To Koreans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running Korean boats saga came to an end yesterday after intervention by the US State Department.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe Bahamian company which cliamed to own the 15-craft fleet is handing them back to the Korean group that supplied them.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s all over,&#8221; said a source close to the situation. &#8220;The documents were signed today.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe State Department representing Korean-Americans, who were among the 23-strong group which supplied the fleet, demanded an end to the deadlock.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nAccording to informed sources, a State Department representative flew into Nassau last week to confer with top government representatives.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;An ultimatum was issued,&#8221; one source said. &#8220;In effect, the US demanded the return of the boats.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe matter still hinged on a bill of sale which Netsiwill, the Bahamian company involved in the deal, did not have in its possession.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n&#8220;Once that was established the whole agreement fell away,&#8221; said the source, &#8220;because the Koreans had not passed on the final documents.&#8221;<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nThe Koreans will now be free to take the boats from the Morgan&#8217;s Bluff moorings in Andros where they have been kept for several months.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\n<B>Source: The Tribune<\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ultimatum was issued,&#8221; one source said. &#8220;In effect, the US demanded the return of the boats.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}