Bárcena urges Celac to support complaint before ICJ for assault on embassy

Mexico City. This Tuesday, Foreign Minister Alicia Bárcena urged the member countries of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to support the lawsuit that Mexico will present before the Intentional Court of Justice (ICJ) so that Ecuador responds for the assault perpetrated on the Mexican embassy. in Quito and having violated international law committed.

In a virtual meeting of Celac foreign ministers, urgently called by Honduras, which holds the Pro Tempore presidency of the regional organization, Bárcena defended the Mexican decision to grant asylum to former Ecuadorian president Jorge Glas, and accused the government of Daniel Noboa of having He chose to commit a “brutal and unjustified attack on our embassy” instead of resorting to the diplomatic and legal means available to him, which, he maintained, even Mexico suggested to him before the attack.

“Mexico urges the member states of Celac to endorse the lawsuit that we will present before the International Court of Justice, as well as the letter that we will send to the Secretary General of the United Nations to condemn the regrettable events,” said Bárcena on instructions from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

“We must see a unified Celac, a Celac that defends international standards, its greatest and most deeply rooted legal traditions, including that we are a zone of peace, a Celac that ensures the present and future good of all our peoples,” added the head of Mexican diplomacy.

In the session, prior to a meeting of heads of state of Celac that will be held on Friday to discuss a condemnation of Ecuadorian actions, Bárcena said that given the arguments on behalf of Ecuador that Mexico had abused diplomatic immunities by protecting a common criminal, “Mexico strongly rejects this position.”

“Mexico carefully studied the information provided by the Ecuadorian authorities to evaluate Mr. Glas’ request for political asylum. “Based on this exhaustive review, Mexico found sufficient elements to grant him political asylum and as established by applicable international law, this decision must be respected,” he stated.

He added that Mexico “acted with total transparency and honesty towards the Ecuadorian authorities and maintained at all times a dialogue in good faith with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inform it about this situation at all times.”

He added that Ecuador “there were multiple occasions in which the question expressed, probably due to the same erroneous and malicious information, that we confirmed to the government of Ecuador that Mr. Jorge Glas remained in our mission and we expressed guarantees that he would remain so.”

He stressed that if Ecuador’s concern, as Nova has expressed, was to avoid a possible situation of impunity, “in any case, as Mexico suggested on several occasions, it should have handed over the safe conduct and made a reservation of extradition” and that “had to resort to peaceful means of dispute resolution.”

“Even if an agreement could not have been reached, Ecuador could have referred the dispute to different inter-American and international bodies,” he added.