Ecuador this Wednesday defended at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the charge of attacking the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas. It was an “exceptional” and “isolated” act.emphasizing that the Ecuadorian politician was “duly convicted” of corruption crimes.

Ecuador’s Ambassador to the Netherlands, Andres Teran, stressed on the second day of hearings in the case that Your country has given written “guarantees” to Mexico. that he would fulfill his duty to respect and protect his personnel and diplomatic staff, but justified Glass’s arrest after the attack on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

“Mexico has been misusing its diplomatic headquarters in Quito for months. harbor a habitual criminal who has been duly convicted twice by the highest courts of Ecuador for serious crimes related to corruption, and is the subject of ongoing procedures involving a large number of cases of corruption and other crimes,” he said.

Today the International Court held second public hearing about the invasion of the Mexican embassy by Ecuadorian police and the attack on diplomatic personnel on the night of Friday, April 5. Mexico accused Ecuador at Tuesday’s meeting of “crossing lines that should not be crossed under international law.”

On the other hand, the representative of Ecuador in his speech assured that the hearing in the international court is “unnecessary and completely unjustified” since it had already given Mexico “guarantees” that this was an “exceptional” act, it was therefore impossible to prescribe the required precautions

“These events were exceptional and their circumstances no longer exist today. Ecuador fully protects the Mexican embassy and diplomatic headquarters. because it respects and protects all residents of our capital,” he assured.

In the same vein, he explained that his country “desired” these guarantees to be written into the CJI order, but Mexico rejected this “act of goodwill” consideration of a case in an international organization “without a real purpose.”

Teran also emphasized that ‘There are no threats’ to Mexican real estate at this time in Ecuador, At the same time, “Mexico’s insinuations that Ecuadorian courts may order a new entrance to the embassy have no basis in Ecuadorian law, and there is no evidence in court.”

Ecuador’s ambassador insisted that the attack on the embassy where former Vice President Glas was staying was an “isolated” event and justified that the politician is a “criminal” that he has been “duly convicted” in corruption cases and also has other open cases.

“We will never protect criminals” “who harmed the Mexicans” said the representative of Ecuador at the International Court of Justice.

The hearings in Mexico yesterday and in Ecuador are designed to hear arguments about the precautions requested by the former country before the trial begins. and the final decision of the procedure faced by both countries.

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Mexico asks the International Court of Justice to order Quito “take appropriate and immediate measures to“to ensure the complete protection and security of diplomatic installations, their property and archives, preventing any form of intrusion against them.”

The court retires to consider the case the need for these precautions, which will be announced in a few weeks, but without going into the content of the procedure itself, the start date of which is not yet available.

(EFE)