The president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa, accepted this Monday the existence of a “complex and unprecedented situation” after the police raid ordered by his Government to the Mexican Embassy in Quito last Friday, to arrest former vice president Jorge Glas, accused of corruption and that he was in that legation with political asylum.
Noboa assured that he had to make “exceptional decisions to protect national security, the rule of law and the dignity of a people that rejects any type of impunity for criminals, delinquents or narco-terrorists.”
In a letter that he published on his social networks, the president of Ecuador stated that he was “willing to resolve any difference” with Mexico, but reiterated that “justice is not negotiated.”
“The last few days have required strength and determination,” said the president. by stating that his obligation was to “comply with the dictates of justice”so he could not allow “sentenced criminals involved in very serious crimes to be isolated.”
That asylum would have violated “article II of the Caracas Agreement, article I of the Montevideo Convention and article 41 of the Vienna Convention,” the president added in his letter when insisting on his warning that his Government was aware of the “risk imminent” escape from Glas.
He criticized Ecuadorian political groups that have questioned his management on this issue and that have “requested” sanctions against the country.
Some “have asked Mexico to declare war on us and the international community to sanction us economically, committing a betrayal of the Homeland never seen before,” he noted.
“We must understand that we are risking the country and that All these criticisms come out once they see that the vast majority of Ecuadorians will vote for national dignity in the popular consultation on April 21the maximum democratic expression of a nation,” he added in reference to the plebiscite promoted by his Government on issues of security, investments and employment.
Ecuador “is a country of peace and justice, which respects all nations and international law. To the brother people of Mexico I want to express that I will always be willing to resolve any difference, but that justice is not negotiated and that we will never protect criminals who have harmed Mexicans,” he said.
Finally, he thanked the Police, the Armed Forces and his work team, as well as the “millions of Ecuadorians who fight every day alongside me for a new Ecuador.”
The diplomatic crisis broke out on Friday night when, in an unusual event and condemned by a large part of the international community, the Ecuadorian police broke into the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest Jorge Glas, former vice president of Rafael Correa (2013-2018) prosecuted for corruption and who had requested political asylum to Mexico.
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, ordered the breaking of diplomatic relations with Ecuador and the immediate return to Mexico of all the staff of its embassy in Quito.
According to the Noboa Government, Mexico had breached international treaties on the right to asylum by sheltering a person who was accused of embezzlement and who had to return to prison to serve two sentences for bribery and criminal association.
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2024-04-24 08:21:25
