Noboa confirms his refusal to facilitate Jorge Glas’ departure from the nation

The conservative Daniel Noboa, president of the federal government of Ecuador, reaffirmed his controversial determination to storm the Mexican Embassy in Quito, whereas confirming his resounding refusal to facilitate the departure from the nation of former vp Jorge Glas, who remained a refugee. on the Mexican diplomatic headquarters till earlier than the assault. The Ecuadorian president expressed confidence that earlier than the celebration of the subsequent Ibero-American Summit, which will likely be held in November, bilateral relations with Mexico will likely be recovered.

In a gathering on the Casa de América in Madrid, organized by the general public information company EFE, its director, Miguel Ángel Oliver, interviewed President Noboa about all the present occasions surrounding his administration since he took workplace six months in the past. Among the many most controversial problems with his brief administration is the assault on the diplomatic headquarters in Quito, on April 5, which brought about worldwide astonishment on the flagrant and public violation of all of the diplomatic and worldwide conventions in drive for the reason that finish of the Second World Warfare.

Regardless of this, Noboa at no time expressed remorse for having on condition that order, though he was keen to get well diplomatic relations with Mexico so long as “non-intervention in judicial issues is revered.”

Noboa additionally warned that “within the diplomatic subject, we’re open to reestablishing relations, so long as a vital precept is revered: non-intervention and never meddling in Ecuador’s inside judicial points.” On this sense, he expressed his willingness to beat the diplomatic disaster with Mexico, though he acknowledged that “till in the present day, the one situation has been that we return a felony sentenced to a most safety jail, put him on a airplane and We ship it to Mexico. We cannot do this”. He even added that “we would go away a horrible precedent if we give in” to the request of the federal government of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to launch him, insisting that “the choice we made was the suitable and accountable one.”