He Government of Mexico This Tuesday, April 30, 2024, he accused Ecuador before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of «crossing lines that should not be crossed in international law» by the assault on the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest the former vice president Jorge Glas Espinelto whom Mexico had granted asylum.
Jorge Glas had two final convictions and a provisional detention order for an investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office for alleged irregularities in the reconstruction of Manabí when Mexico granted him political asylum. The Caracas Convention on Political Asylum, of 1954, establishes that those who have been convicted of common crimes cannot receive political asylum.
«There are lines in international law that should not be crossed. Unfortunately, the Republic of Ecuador has crossed them. Ecuador’s actions not only violate the established limits of international law, they also create a disconcerting precedent that reverberates throughout the international community.explained the Mexican representative in the court based in The Hague, Alejandro Celorio.
The CIJ cholds today the first public hearing on the emergence of the Ecuadorian Police at the Mexican Embassy and the attack on diplomatic personnel on the night of Friday, April 5, and this Tuesday is the Mexico’s turn to present their arguments about the alleged violations of international law committed by Ecuador.
Celorio insisted that Ecuador has violated “one of the cornerstones that govern relations between states” with his actions in Quito and stressed that at the core of his specific case is “the legal certainty of any other sovereign State, international organization or court.”
Assault on the Mexican embassy
The Mexican representative, who spoke of a “worrying doubt” about Quito’s intentions in the assault on your embassy and accused him of “deliberate negligence” towards the lives of the people who were in the premises, he pointed out that this incursion “clearly shows Ecuador’s lack of respect for fundamental, universally accepted norms that have existed for a long time”.
Celorio said that, even after the incident, the statements of the Ecuadorian representatives have only increased his concern and insisted that the inviolability of diplomatic premises is guaranteed even in Ecuadorian legislation.
“We have not been given credible guarantees to avoid new infractions nor has Ecuador fully recognized its obligation not to enter the premises of Mexico,” Celorio stressed.
The Mexican arguments open two days of hearings at the ICJ to hear the arguments on the precautionary measures requested by Mexico against Ecuador, pending the start of the trial and the final ruling of the procedure that confronts both countries.
Mexico sees it necessary to issue precautionary measures against Ecuador and requests the ICJ to demand that Quito “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.”
Precautionary measures
Furthermore, he believes that the Court should urge the Ecuadorian Government to allow Mexico “to clear the diplomatic facilities and the private residence of diplomatic agents,” and that “no action be taken that could prejudice the rights of Mexico with respect to any decision.” » that the ICJ can issue on the merits of the dispute.
Afterwards, 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.
EFE
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