Mexico City, April 16.- The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, assured that he will defend the country's position against Ecuador when he participates in an extraordinary meeting with his counterparts from the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
As he stressed, in the virtual meeting this Tuesday he will address the complaint filed before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and that requests to suspend the South American nation from the United Nations until it formally apologizes for raiding the Mexican embassy in Quito.
He indicated that the lawsuit is a matter of priority for his Government because it implies a violation of our sovereignty and international law.
Likewise, the president ruled out for now accepting the suggestion of the Ecuadorian ruler, Daniel Noboa, to talk about the issue.
Today Honduras will lead the Celac videoconference meeting in order to analyze the diplomatic crisis that arose between both States after the Ecuadorian police forcibly entered the Mexican embassy on the 5th to capture former vice president Jorge Glas, who previously requested asylum to the López Obrador government.
The bloc first analyzed the situation in a meeting of the troika (Honduras, Colombia and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) and then in an extraordinary meeting at the level of foreign ministers, who reiterated their individual condemnations of the violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and to the Asylum Standards of the Caracas Convention.
Glas has an arrest warrant in his country for alleged embezzlement of funds in the reconstruction of two provinces affected by an earthquake.
Apart from the international rejection of the event, Mexico and also Nicaragua broke relations with Ecuador, a lawsuit was filed before the ICJ against Quito and Colombia promised actions so that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issues precautionary measures in favor of Glas.
Other organizations in the region also called for emergency meetings with this issue on the agenda and the consequences for Ecuador, which could face sanctions. (Text and photo: PL)
