President of Ecuador Daniel Noboa This Friday he demonstrated his willingness to resolve differences with Mexico.after the attack on the embassy in Quito, where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glass was taking refuge.

This as long as “the principle of non-interference is respected.” and not interfere in internal judicial matters,” Noboa said during his tour of Spain.

“I hope to do this, I can only hope to have good will, but unfortunately Until now, the only condition was the return of the convicted criminal. that he’s in a maximum security prison, let’s put him on a plane and send him off to Mexico“Noboa stated in the EFE Tribune – Casa de América newspaper, in which he was interviewed by the president of the EFE agency, Miguel Angel Oliver.

For the President of Ecuador, who ends this Friday in Madrid a European tour during which he visited the Vatican, Italy and France, The North American country has also violated international treaties. receiving Glas at his embassy, ​​where Ecuadorian police arrived on April 5 to arrest the former vice president and send him to prison.

Conflict with Mexico

As a result of these events, Mexico severed diplomatic relations with Ecuador and asked the International Court of Justice for precautionary measures against the Andean country for the attack on its embassy in Quito, whose government accused of violating the Vienna Convention.

“Trying to have as a guest a person who performs more than one, two convictions from past governments, not mineand he was a fugitive at the time,” Noboa said this Friday.

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We “respect the various powers of the state and The judiciary has its own independence. If he is found guilty, if he is sentenced, we must respect that. This is a democratic system and a system that respects international law,” he added.

Noboa remembers the Vienna Convention

Noboa recalled that the Vienna Convention also “states that There should be no interference (by countries) in judicial matters.“.

“It’s like if someone is in prison, they escape from prison and run to the embassy. We’ll set a bad precedent if we give in to this Tomorrow another nation may say: “Look, 100 people escaped from prison.” and they broke into our embassy, ​​put us on a plane, and took us to another country. “We can’t do this,” he said.

Noboa assured that his government Protect also in international authorities his actions in the attack on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador.

“I think this will be a historic turning point in how Embassies cannot be used to hide any crimes. international,” the president ventured.

Noboa talks about the possibility of an attack

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa admitted today in Madrid that every night he tries to “go to sleep thinking that it has always existed.” possibility of being attacked, which, he said, is “a heavy burden for the family and for me as a ruler.”

“This is what I have always been willing to endure, but I always knew it was possible“, the president said in an interview with the EFE-Casa de América Tribune when asked about the global political consequences of the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico last Wednesday.

He recalled that candidate Fernando Villavicencio was killed on August 9, 2023. last day of the first round of presidential elections this brought Noboa to power, a fact that he noted we live with every day and “something we cannot change.”

According to the EFE agency