They support Mexico against Ecuador

He President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador requested the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) accompany the complaint that was brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against armed invasion that police forces perpetrated against the embassy of Mexico in Ecuador last April 5.

We appreciate the solidarity of the majority of the people and governments of Latin America and the Caribbean and we also want to propose that you accompany us by signing the complaint in the Court of International Justice,” the president expressed in his speech.

The president made the request yesterday during the extraordinary virtual summit that brought together the members of the Celac to analyze the attacks committed against our country after the emergence of Ecuadorian police to the Mexican embassy in Quito.

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Given this, the governments of Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Cuba, Guatemala, Granada, Honduras, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines y Guyana They supported Mexico.

The leaders attended the meeting called by the President of Honduras, Xiomara CastroChairwoman for the time of the Latin American organization created to resolve the region’s differences through dialogue.

I would like to thank you very much for your support and tell you that we are going to continue defending the independence and sovereignty of our country. Mexico is not a protectorate, it is not a colony of any foreign country. Mexico is a free, sovereign country,” said López Obrador.

The complaint of Mexico before the International Court of Justice requires the expulsion of Ecuador from the UN as long as he does not offer public apologies for the attacks he carried out.

Also proposes allowing the return of Jorge Glasformer vice president of Ecuador to the Mexican authoritieswho had granted him political asylum hours before the attack on the embassy.

Previously, in a morning conference, López Obrador demanded that the CJI must actto request the expulsion of Ecuador from the United Nations.

Accepting that our sovereignty was violated, it is also important to us that there is no repetition in any case, and it is time for any State that violates the sovereignty of an embassy of another country, and that violates the right of asylum, to the right international, be expelled from the UN, let the CJI rule on this,” said President López Obrador.

VOICES OF SUPPORT

Los leaders spoke in the same sense.

A formal apology from Ecuador is a first step in the right direction. An action of this nature had never occurred, not even in the worst moments of separation and disagreement in Latin America and the Caribbean. Not even in the dark times of military dictatorships on our continent,” said Brazilian President Luis Inácio da Silva.

Xiomara Castro said: “The conclusion is very clear about the condemnation of the violent events that occurred in Ecuador and the request for safe conduct for Jorge Glas, the former vice president,” said Xiomara Castro.

The Colombian leader, Gustavo Petro He assured that Ecuador and Israel are “shaking hands in the competition for barbarism.”

For his part, the President of Bolivia, Luis ArceEcuador assured that “it has unacceptablely outraged” the institution of asylum.

With information from DPA.

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