OAS Permanent Council analyzes this Tuesday the attack on the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador

O Organization of American States (OAS) meets this Tuesday, at the request of Ecuador, to discuss the recent incident with Mexico triggered after the assault by Ecuadorian forces on the Mexican Embassy in Quito to remove former vice-president Luis Glas, an ally of Rafael Correa. The aggression led to the breaking of diplomatic relations by Mexico, which last Friday had granted political asylum to Glas and planned to remove him from Quito this weekend.

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”.

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Ecuador was the first to request this Sunday a meeting for Tuesday Permanent Council of the body and, a few hours later, Colombia It is Bolivia They asked for another meeting for Wednesday.

In turn, the meeting requested by Colombia and Bolivia will take place on Wednesday at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) and will address “the violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and its connection with the figure of asylum, as well as the injuries suffered by Mexican diplomatic personnel in Ecuador”as indicated in the call.

The president of ColombiaGustavo Petro, already announced this Saturday on the social network

The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagroalso announced on Saturday that it planned to request a meeting of the Permanent Council of the institution to address the matter, after having unequivocally rejected the assault on the embassy and “any action that violates or puts at risk” the inviolability enjoyed by diplomatic missions.

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

Source: Elcomercio

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