Mexico broke relations with Ecuador on April 5, when the Ecuadorian Police broke into the Mexican Embassy in Quito, to arrest Jorge Glas.

The ambassador of Ecuador to the Netherlands, Andrés Terán, on the second day of the oral hearings at the International Court of Justice, The Hague, May 1, 2024.
On the second and final day of oral hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Ecuador assured that the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, on April 5, occurred under “very exceptional circumstances.”
The Ecuadorian Ambassador to the Netherlands, Andrés Terán Parral, was part of the diplomatic team of the Daniel Noboa government at the Court.
And in his speech Terán stated that “the isolated incident of April 5 was just that. It took place in very exceptional circumstances.”
One day after the hearing, Terán again referred to the diplomatic crisis in an interview with the Ecuavisa channel.
According to Terán, in his appearance in The Hague, the country has expressed its willingness to speak with Mexico directly.
“Even President Daniel Noboa himself has stated it. Ecuador is absolutely willing to sit down and talk with its Mexican counterparts,” added Terán, this May 2.
In this hypothetical conversation, Terán indicated that they would seek to find “ways to resolve the impasse, but as the President has said, justice is not negotiable.”
The Ecuadorian allegations closed the oral hearings before the Court in response to the preventive measures requested by Mexico following the invasion of the Ecuadorian police into the Embassy, in order to capture former Vice President Jorge Glas.
In its presentation, Ecuador asked the Court to reject the Mexican demand for provisional measures.
Mexico’s aspiration
For her part, the Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, trusted that the Court will resolve in favor of Mexico the case due to Ecuador’s invasion of its Embassy.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) hopes that the ICJ will determine that Ecuador’s violent invasion of its Embassy in Quito is not equivalent to Mexico’s right to grant asylum to Glas.
Otherwise, he warned, a dangerous precedent would be set if the ICJ equated both acts.
“Equating the violent invasion of the Mexican Embassy with the disagreement regarding Mexico’s right to grant asylum to Jorge Glas would set a dangerous precedent,” he warned in his X account.
Furthermore, Bárcena defended that the right of asylum is granted to protect a person exposed to life-threatening risk for political reasons and claimed to fear for the integrity of the former vice president of Ecuador.
According to Bárcena, Ecuador could have sued Mexico for its disagreement in advance, since Glas entered the Mexican Embassy in Quito since December 2023.