The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorwarned this Friday that allowing the former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas (2013-2017) obtain asylum in Mexico would not resolve the conflict with Ecuadorone week after the assault on their Embassy in Quito and the breakdown of relationships.
“As for asylum, the international court (the International Court of Justice) also has to resolve that, but it is not that they send us, as we were requesting, as asylum to the vice president and the other thing was forgotten, no.”the president warned in his morning conference.
López Obrador expressed that “what his Government wants” is that there be no repetition” of a raid like the one last Friday, when the Ecuadorian authorities forcibly entered the Mexican Embassy in Quito to take Glas, sheltered there since December in the middle of a criminal trial for corruption.
“Of course the vice president has the right to asylum and the right to asylum must be asserted, but they are both”he remarked.
His statements come while an Ecuadorian court is deliberating this Friday on the request of former Vice President Glas to annul his detention inside the Mexican Embassy after having received asylum, and order the Ecuadorian State to return him to Mexico.
The Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Barcenaasked on Thursday “that the health and integrity of Jorge Glas be protected”, whom he still considers “a political asylum from Mexico”, for which he requests that he be able to receive visits from his family and his lawyers.
But, beyond asylum, López Obrador now insisted that it is Mexico’s priority that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) resolve the lawsuit that the Mexican Government filed against Ecuador on Thursday, insisting that the UN must suspend the South American country until it offers a public apology.
“We are asking that Ecuador be suspended from the United Nations, as long as they do not speak out and recognize that they violated international law and our sovereignty, which is what we want.”he stressed.
Even so, he acknowledged that “Mr. (António) Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, is right” for saying on Thursday that “this is also up to the Member States of the United Nations Organization to decide.”
The president announced that he will participate next Tuesday in the extraordinary virtual summit of leaders convened by the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac) to address the crisis.
“We are going to have a meeting on Tuesday, a teleconference, videoconference, which the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, is calling, for which I thank her very much, as well as other leaders, because there has been a lot of solidarity with Mexico”, he commented. EFE (I)
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