He The Ecuadorian government has filed a counterclaim against Mexico. this Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, given that the Mexican state under the command of the President Andres Manuel Lopez Obradorviolated the agreement governing diplomatic asylum when it granted this benefit to Jorge Glas, Rafael Correa’s former vice president.

Ecuador’s counterclaim is a response to the original complaint filed earlier by Mexico. Hague in which he accused the Andean country of violating the inviolability of diplomatic headquarters by invade their embassy in Quito On April 5, arrest Glas, who had an arrest warrant and preventive detention.

In his statement Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador explained that the counterclaim also condemns the alleged interference in internal affairs when, in previous days, López Obrador linked the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio with the electoral victory of President Daniel Noboa over Correista candidate Luisa González.

Ecuador’s claim asks the International Court of Justice to declare that Mexico “has failed to comply with its obligations to respect the laws and regulations of the host State, not to interfere in the internal affairs of the host State, and not to use mission premises in a manner inconsistent with the “functions of the diplomatic mission under Article 41 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 1961.”

For him Government of EcuadorMexico has also “violated, among other things, its obligations not to grant asylum to persons who are being prosecuted or tried for ordinary crimes or have been convicted by competent ordinary courts and to hand them over to the competent local authorities,” as stated in the 1954 and 1933 Diplomatic Asylum and Political Asylum Conventions years respectively.

Glass had a preventive detention order in a case related to reconstruction work after a major earthquake in 2016, where he is accused of alleged embezzlement (wasting public funds).