The OAS will meet on Tuesday, April 9, at the request of Ecuador, to discuss the incident with Mexico

The Organization of American States (OAS) has called a meeting for Tuesday, April 9, at the request of Ecuador, to discuss the recent incident with Mexico triggered after the attack by Ecuadorian forces on the Mexican embassy in Quito to remove former vice-president Luis Glas, an ally of Rafael Correa, from there.

The attack led to the breakdown of diplomatic relations due to Mexicothat in December he had granted political asylum to Glas and planned to take him out of Quito this weekend.

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The extraordinary meeting of the OAS was convened at 3pm local time on Tuesday in Washington (7pm GMT) and will have as its agenda the “Rules of diplomatic relations and asylum”.

Ecuador is, therefore, ahead of Luis Almagro himself, president of OASwho on Saturday announced that he intended to request a meeting of the institution’s Permanent Council to discuss the issue, after having unequivocally rejected the attack on the embassy and “any action that violates or puts at risk” the inviolability enjoyed by diplomatic missions.

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Almagro also expressed on Saturday his “solidarity with the victims of the inappropriate actions that affected the Mexican embassy in Ecuador”a reaction that coincides with that of most of the international community.

Last Friday night, a group of police officers from Ecuador stormed the embassy Mexico in Quito and detained former vice-president Jorge Glas, to whom the Mexican government granted political asylum after having entered that legation since December 2023.

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Through a statement, the Government of Ecuador confirmed that Glas was arrested and placed under the orders of the competent authorities.

After that, the Mexican embassy in Ecuador closed indefinitely and suspended consular services for more than 1,600 Mexicans and businesspeople in the South American country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday.

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Mexico also announced that it will appeal to the International Court of Justice to denounce Ecuador’s responsibility for violations of International Law.

Source: Elcomercio

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