MEXICO CITY (apro).- After the claim expressed this morning by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador against the governments of the United States and Canada, for not forcefully condemning the raid on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador on April 5 , the Mexican government approached the “brother countries” of Latin America and the Caribbean that declared their solidarity in reaction to the operation.
During an extraordinary session of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) – a regional organization that the leftist governments of the region have promoted, to balance the weight of the Organization of American States (OAS) -, convened to determine actions derived from the attack against the Mexican diplomatic headquarters in Quito, Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena Ibarra thanked, “on behalf” of López Obrador, the representatives of the governments that condemned the operation, which she referred to as an “unprecedented outrage.” .
The chancellor urged the representatives of the governments present to support the proposal of the CELAC presidency – headed by the Honduran government of Ximena Castro – to call an extraordinary meeting between heads of state to condemn the attack with a “firm and united”; She also asked them to support the lawsuit that the Mexican government will present against Quito before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the letter that the Foreign Ministry will send to Antonio Gutérres, the secretary general of the UN.
“It is time to see a united CELAC,” said Bárcena, who in her participation rejected the argument of Daniel Noboa’s government according to which Mexico had “abused diplomatic immunities by protecting a common criminal,” as she asserted that the Foreign Ministry “carefully” reviewed the information about Rafael Correa’s former vice president, and found “sufficient elements” to grant him political asylum.
The chancellor stressed that the Noboa government had several options to react to the granting of asylum by Mexico: it had to provide a safe passage “and formulate an extradition reservation,” and added that “even if it had a different interpretation, it had to resort to peaceful means of dispute resolution. There was no way he could “illegally break into” the premises, she insisted.
In the hours after the police-military operation, which the Noboa government launched against the Mexican embassy in Quito to capture Glas, 20 governments from Latin America and the Caribbean, 9 from Europe – including the European Union -, the governments of Iran and Russia and the main international organizations, such as the UN and the OAS, expressed their condemnation.
Mexico’s trading partners under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA, formerly NAFTA), adopted positions that López Obrador called “ambiguous” in his morning conference today.
?? Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena made an appeal, on the instructions of President López Obrador, to the member countries of the #CELAC to support the lawsuit that will be presented before the International Court of Justice (@CIJ_ICJ) and the letter that will be sent to the general secretary of the… pic.twitter.com/5rYFUDOOHQ
— Foreign Affairs (@SRE_mx) April 9, 2024
The US government of Joe Biden took 24 hours to make known its position on the attack, and the State Department statement was limited to delivering a neutral position: it described Mexico and Ecuador as “strategic partners” for the United States, and He urged the two countries to “resolve their differences while respecting international standards.”
Although López Obrador put the Canadian administration of Justin Trudeau in the same bag, the publication that the Canadian Foreign Ministry uploaded to its social networks on April 6 had a more severe tone than that of Washington, as it expressed its “deep concern” for the “apparent violation by Ecuador of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by entering the Mexican Embassy without authorization.”
The Mexican president deplored in the morning that the statements of Mexico’s “economic commercial partners” and “neighbors” in North America were “very ambiguous” and their position “very indefinite”; In addition to pointing out that the messages did not come from either Biden or Trudeau, he rejected Canada’s use of the word “apparent,” and denounced that the United States bulletin does not speak out against “this authoritarian act.”
?? At the extraordinary meeting of ministers of the #CELACForeign Minister Alicia Bárcena reiterated to the member countries the need to not allow again an unprecedented authoritarian and violent act in the region, such as the one carried out by Ecuador against our… pic.twitter.com/8dmZR9RrJB
— Foreign Affairs (@SRE_mx) April 9, 2024
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2024-04-10 20:19:37