Ecuador responds to Mexico before the International Court for the asylum granted to Jorge Glas

The government of Ecuador contested this Monday Mexico before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of The Hague when considering that the Mexican State, under the command of the president Andrés Manuel López Obradorviolated the agreement that regulates diplomatic asylum by granting this benefit to Jorge Glasformer vice president of Rafael Corrêa.

The counterclaim of Ecuador responds to an initial complaint filed by Mexico in view of Have it in which he accused the Andean country of having transgressed the inviolable character of the diplomatic headquarters storming his embassy in Quito on April 5 to arrest Glas, who had a warrant for his arrest and preventive detention.

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In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador explained that the counterclaim also denounces alleged interference in internal affairs when in the previous days López Obrador reported the murder of Presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio with the electoral victory of President Daniel Noboa over the Correís candidate Luisa González.

Demand for Ecuador requests the International Court to declare that Mexico “failed to fulfill its obligations to respect the laws and regulations of the receiving State, not to interfere in the internal affairs of the receiving State and not to use mission facilities in a manner incompatible with the functions of the diplomatic mission, in accordance with article 41 .º of Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961″.

For the Ecuadorian government, Mexico It also “failed, among others, with its obligations not to grant asylum to people who are being prosecuted or tried for common crimes or who have been convicted”. by the competent ordinary courts, and hand them over to the competent local authorities.”as contained in the diplomatic asylum conventions and political asylum 1954 and 1933, respectively.

glass He had a preventive detention order for the case of reconstruction works after the strong earthquake of 2016, where he is accused of alleged embezzlement (misappropriation of public resources).

Likewise, the former vice president had not yet served an eight-year prison sentence for two counts of bribery and illicit association, after being released from prison in 2022 thanks to a controversial judicial resolution of precautionary measures.

The penalty for bribery is framed in the Bribery case, about the irregular financing of the official movement of Rafael Corrêawho was also sentenced to the same sentence and politically disqualifiedwhile the conviction for illicit association in the Odebrecht case, referring to bribes paid by the Brazilian construction company.

Glas was one of the strong men of the Government of beltwhere he became vice president, a position he also held at the beginning of Lenín Moreno’s presidential term (2017-2021).

The former vice president was in Mexican Embassy in Quito since December 17, 2023, where he requested asylum having always rejected the accusations and accusations against him and declaring himself politically persecuted and a victim of ‘lawfare’ (use of the judicial apparatus against political opponents), like Correa, who says he has refugee status in Belgium .

However, for the Ecuadorian Executive, the López Obrador government “violated the principles of sovereign equality, territorial integrity and non-intervention in the internal affairs of third parties stateaccording to United Nations CharterO Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS) and customary international law.”

“(Also) violated its obligation to cooperate on anti-corruption matters, in accordance with Article XIV of the 1996 Inter-American Convention against Corruption and Articles 43, 46 and 48 of the Convention of United Nations against corruption 2003″, he concluded.

O OAS strongly condemned the invasion of Mexican Embassy in Quitoin a statement where he also called for due compliance with asylum rules.

A court of the National Court of Justice of Ecuador declared the arrest of glass for not having respected the search procedure at diplomatic headquarters, but maintaining glass in prison for having to serve the penalty of eight years in prison.

Although the Mexican government has demanded that Ecuador deliver to glasshe is confined in The rockthe maximum security prison of Ecuadorin the city of Guayaquilwhere in the first days of confinement he suffered a decompensation that caused him to be hospitalized for several hours.

Source: Elcomercio

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