Ecuador completed the presentation of the allegations in the ICJ for the invasion of the Mexican embassy in that country, in Quito, and points out that this action carried out to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas was an “exceptional” and “isolated” act, at the same time who stressed that the Ecuadorian politician has been “duly convicted” of corruption crimes.
Ecuador’s ambassador to the Netherlands, Andrés Terán, emphasized during the second day of the hearing for this case that his country has given written “guarantees” to Mexico that it will comply with its duty to respect and protect its personnel and diplomatic headquarters. , but justified the arrest of Glas after attacking the Mexican embassy in Quito.
“Mexico wrongly used its diplomatic headquarters in Quito for months to shelter a common criminal who has been duly convicted on two occasions by the highest courts of Ecuador of serious crimes related to corruption and is subject to ongoing proceedings related to more cases of corruption and other crimes”he defended.
Today the ICJ held the second public hearing on the invasion of the Ecuadorian Police into the Mexican Embassy and the attack on diplomatic personnel on the night of Friday, April 5. Mexico accused Ecuador during this Tuesday’s session of “crossing lines that should not be crossed in international law.”
On the other hand, the Ecuadorian representative assured in his speech that the hearing before the international court is “unnecessary and completely unjustified” since he has already given “guarantees” to Mexico that it was an “exceptional” act, so it cannot be decree the precautionary measures requested
“These events were highly exceptional in nature and their circumstances no longer exist today. Ecuador fully protects the embassy and diplomatic headquarters of Mexico as it respects and protects all those in our capital,” he assured.
He explained, along the same lines, that his country was “willing” for these guarantees to be written down in an order from the CJI, but Mexico rejected this “act of good will” by taking the case before the international organization “without an objective.” real”.
Terán also stressed that “there are no threats” currently regarding Mexican properties in Ecuador, while “the insinuations by Mexico that the Ecuadorian courts can decree new entries in the embassy have no basis in Ecuadorian law, there is no evidence Before the court”.
The Ecuadorian ambassador insisted that the assault on the embassy in which former Vice President Glas was located was an “isolated” event and justified that the politician is a “criminal” who has been “duly convicted” for cases of corruption and has, in addition, , other open causes.
“We will never protect criminals who have caused harm to Mexicans,” argued Ecuador’s representative before the International Court of Justice.
The hearings in Mexico, yesterday, and in Ecuador are intended to hear the arguments on the precautionary measures requested by the first country, pending the start of the trial and the final ruling of the procedure that confronts both countries.
Mexico requests the ICJ to require Quito “to take appropriate and immediate measures to provide full protection and security of diplomatic facilities, their property and archives, preventing any form of intrusion against them.”
The court will retire to deliberate on the need for these precautionary measures, which it will announce in a matter of weeks, but without yet entering into the content of the procedure itself, something for which there is still no start date.
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2024-05-04 07:13:55
