Conflict in diplomatic relations has grown after Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican embassy in Ecuador on Saturday to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had requested asylum on the embassy in Quito.
Foreign Ecuadorian Minister Gabriela Sommerfeld mentioned on Monday that the Mexican authorities dedicated “provocations” and “breaches” in granting asylum to Glas and that Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa “had information” that Glas was going to flee that evening.
Since Mexico granted Glas asylum simply hours earlier than the raid on the embassy, and after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s statements about sending a navy airplane to choose up the Mexican ambassador Raquel Serur, who was expelled from Ecuador, hypothesis started about an operation for the previous vice chairman to go away with the Mexican authorities.
Glas was needed by his nation’s justice system on corruption prices and had been taking refuge within the Mexican diplomatic headquarters since December. The 54-year-old politician was transferred on Saturday to a most safety jail within the Ecuadorian metropolis of Guayaquil often known as “The Rock,” in line with the nation’s authorities.
Mexico introduced that it’ll file a proper criticism towards Ecuador earlier than the International Court of Justice for violating worldwide agreements by raiding the embassy in Quito.
“Starting tomorrow (Monday) we will be going to the International Court of Justice, where we will be presenting this sad case and of course we will go to all the regional and international multilateral forums that correspond so that this is condemned in its entirety by the international community,” mentioned Secretary of Foreign Affairs Alicia Barcena after Mexico’s diplomatic workers in Ecuador returned to the nation on Sunday.
Barcena mentioned that Mexico is not going to act in an analogous means towards the Ecuadorian Embassy.
“On instructions from the president, we want to call for calm, we are not going to apply the same recipe (to Ecuador). We are not going to carry out the abuse that they did to us,” she mentioned.
Governments within the area, each left and proper, have condemned the raid and requested international locations to respect worldwide regulation.
Source: www.anews.com.tr