The government of Ecuador accuses Mexico of having violated the principles of asylum and use of diplomatic delegations.
The Foreign Ministry of Ecuador confirmed on April 29 the presentation of a complaint against the Mexican State.
The Ecuadorian State sued Mexico on April 29, 2024 before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for “Mexico’s violations of a series of international obligations.”
The complaint is known one day before the ICJ begins to hear, on April 30, 2024, the arguments of both countries for the lawsuit filed by Mexico against Ecuador.
This, due to the raid by the Ecuadorian police on the Mexican Embassy in Quito, on April 5, which ended in the capture of former vice president Jorge Glas, who is now detained in the high-security prison, La Roca.
According to information from the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry, the lawsuit was presented at noon in The Hague, Netherlands.
Ecuador raises four breaches in which Mexico would have incurred. These are:
- It has failed to comply with 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 the mission premises in a manner incompatible with the functions of the diplomatic mission, as established by the Vienna Convention.
- It has failed to comply with its obligations not to grant asylum to people who are being prosecuted or on trial for common crimes or have been convicted by competent ordinary courts, and to hand them over to local authorities.
- It has violated the principles of sovereign equality, territorial integrity and non-intervention in the internal affairs of other States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization of American States and international law.
- It has 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 2023 United Nations Convention against Corruption.
In addition, the government of Daniel Noboa makes two requests to the International Court of Justice in its lawsuit.
To resolve and declare that by making false and insulting statements through its Head of State (Manuel López Obrador) that call into question the legitimacy of the 2023 elections, Mexico has violated the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of others. State.
Therefore, let him judge and declare the legal consequences for the United Mexican States derived from his internationally illicit acts.
For this, the defense of the Ecuadorian State will be sponsored by the State Attorney General’s Office.
ICJ confirms lawsuit.
On the social network account X, the International Court of Justice confirmed that it received the lawsuit filed by Ecuador against the State of Mexico.
The ICJ reports that in its request, Ecuador maintains that Mexico used the facilities of its diplomatic mission in Quito, between December 17, 2023 and April 5, 2024, “to protect Mr. Glas from the application by Ecuador of its criminal law”.
This action “constituted, among other things, a flagrant misuse of the premises of a diplomatic mission.” Ecuador further accuses Mexico of illegally granting political asylum to Mr. Glas and interfering in its internal affairs.
