Petro speaks out in the midst of the crisis between Ecuador and Mexico – 2024-04-07 19:02:21

2024-04-07 19:02:21

President Gustavo Petro Urrego has announced that Colombia will ask the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to issue precautionary measures in favor of Jorge Glas, former Ecuadorian vice president, after his recent arrest by Ecuadorian authorities. Glas was in asylum status at the Mexican Embassy in Quito before his arrest.

In a statement issued on his social networks, the president Petro expressed concern about the violation of Glas’s right to asylum, calling it a barbaric action. Furthermore, he highlighted that this incident represents a blatant breach of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treatieswhich establishes the principles to resolve international disputes peacefully and under the protection of international law.

The Colombian president called on the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to urgently convene a meeting to examine this situation and address Ecuador’s violation of the Vienna Convention. In this sense, he highlighted the importance of keeping alive the precepts of international law and the democratic pact in the region, despite the political and social tensions in each country.

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Colombia will promote action so that the IACHR issues precautionary measures in favor of Jorge Glass, whose right to asylum was barbarically violated.

OAS and Celag must meet urgently to examine the breach of the Vienna convention by a member state.

— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) April 6, 2024

For his part, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denounced on his social networks the forced entry of Ecuadorian police officers into the Mexican Embassy in Quito. and the arrest of Glas, considering it a violation of the sovereignty of his country. In response, Mexico has announced the suspension of diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

In the midst of this diplomatic crisis, President Petro extended his solidarity to the Mexican diplomatic staff in Quito and reiterated its call to international organizations to intervene and mediate in the situation. It is expected that the request for precautionary measures for Glas and the complaint for violation of the Vienna Convention will be addressed in the next meetings of the IACHR, the OAS and the CELAC.

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