This Thursday, Mexico asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to suspend Ecuador from the UN for the assault on its embassy in Quito to capture the former Ecuadorian vice president, Jorge Glas.
The ICJ, based in The Hague, confirmed in turn having received the lawsuit in which Mexico asks the judges to “declare that Ecuador is responsible for the damage that the violations of its international obligations have caused and continue to cause to Mexico.” .
The lawsuit also asks the court to “suspend Ecuador as a member of the United Nations” until it issues a public apology and “ensures reparation for the moral damage inflicted” on Mexico and its citizens.
According to the Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, the sanction should come into force “as long as a public apology is not issued recognizing the violations of the fundamental principles and norms of international law,” she indicated at President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s daily press conference. .
This seeks to “guarantee the reparation of the moral damage inflicted on the Mexican State and its nationals,” added the chancellor.
For his part, Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for UN Secretary General António Guterres, said that the suspension of a country “is a matter for member states to decide.”
“We very much hope that tensions between Ecuador and Mexico will be resolved through dialogue,” he told reporters in New York.
