Police try to interrupt into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024, following Mexico’s granting of asylum to former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought refuge there.
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Police try to interrupt into the Mexican embassy in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, April 5, 2024, following Mexico’s granting of asylum to former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought refuge there.
Dolores Ochoa/AP
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Mexico is taking Ecuador to the highest U.N. court docket Tuesday, accusing the nation of violating worldwide legislation by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former vp who had simply been granted asylum by Mexico.
The April 5 raid, hours after Mexico granted asylum to former Vice President Jorge Glas, spiked tensions that had been brewing between the 2 international locations since Glas, a convicted legal and fugitive, took refuge on the embassy in December.
Leaders throughout Latin America condemned the raid as a blatant violation of the Vienna Conference on Diplomatic Relations.
Ecuador mentioned Glas was needed on corruption convictions and never for political causes, and has argued that Mexico granting asylum to a convicted legal was itself a violation of the Vienna conference.
Two mornings of preliminary hearings on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice are targeted on Mexico’s request for interim orders generally known as provisional measures to be implement whereas the case progresses by means of the court docket — a course of prone to take many months.
Among the many measures Mexico is looking for are for the world court docket to order Ecuador to take “applicable and instant steps to offer full safety and safety of diplomatic premises” and stop any additional intrusions. It additionally desires Ecuador to let Mexico clear its diplomatic premises and the houses of its diplomats within the nation.
In its case filed April 11, Mexico additionally requested the court docket to award reparation and droop Ecuador from the United Nations.
On Monday, Ecuador additionally filed a case on the Worldwide Courtroom of Justice, accusing Mexico of utilizing its embassy to “defend Mr. Glas from enforcement by Ecuador of its legal legislation” and arguing that the actions “constituted, amongst different issues, a blatant misuse of the premises of a diplomatic mission.”
It requested the court docket to rule that Mexico’s actions breached numerous worldwide conventions. No date was instantly set for hearings within the case filed by Ecuador.
