Despite Daniel Noboa’s invitation to speak, the Mexican president assured that the matter is already being taken to the International Court of Justice to request that the United Nations (UN) expel Ecuador.
Mexico City, April 15 (However).- “I do not regret“, He said President of Ecuador, Daniel Noboaabout him violent assault to the Mexico’s embassy10 days from breakdown of diplomatic relations between both countries. He leader extended a invitation al President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for talk.
“I will invite the President Lopez Obrador a comer cevichewe can probably comer some tacos Together and we can talk When he’s ready,” he said. Noboa in an interview with the Australian network SBS News.
Noboa admitted that arresting the former vice president of his country, Jorge Glas, “was a very difficult decision to make,” and justified the raid on the Mexican consular headquarters by saying that he was the first to violate international conventions. “There was a plan to escape that we were aware of,” Noboa declared.
“We condemn the fact that some governments use their embassies under the façade of a political refuge that in reality is impunity, it is saving criminals from their sentences,” he said.
The Ecuadorian President, Daniel Noboa, upon arrival at an event with young people in El Quinche, Ecuador, on Monday, April 8, 2024. Photo: Dolores Ochoa, AP.
In the morning, during his press conference, President López Obrador ruled out that the conditions exist to reach a solution regarding the diplomatic conflict, since his Government has already filed a complaint before the International Court of Justice to request that Ecuador be suspended from the United Nations Organization (UN).
“It seems that, when a complaint has already been filed in Court, bilateral meetings or agreements can no longer be held. We have to wait for the Court to rule,” he explained.
The president reported that this Tuesday he will have a video conference with his counterparts who make up the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to discuss the issue.
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico, responded to the press during the conference this Monday. Photo: Daniel Augusto, Cuartoscuro
The raid on the Mexican Embassy in Quito generated practically unanimous international support for the López Obrador Government. Since the breaking of diplomatic relations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) has announced a series of routes that the country will take. Last Friday, Mexico’s representation at the UN filed a complaint against Ecuador, which joins that of the International Court of Justice and the call to CELAC.
After the crisis, Daniel Noboa’s political force lost its majority in the National Assembly of Ecuador and the president’s cabinet experienced a shake-up. However stated that the Ecuadorian Minister of Government, Mónica Palencia Núñez, a criminal lawyer born in Durango, in Mexico, was the one who orchestrated the assault on the Mexican Embassy in Quito.
Rafael Correa, former president of Ecuador, described Palencia Núñez as a “Latin American shame” and considered that “she should be tried in her country for treason.” “Remember that the disastrous Minister Mónica Palencia is Mexican. Will he allow this aggression against her own homeland? They should prosecute her in Mexico,” Correa wrote through his X account, formerly Twitter.
-With information from Nora Nancy Gaspar Resendiz.
