2024-04-20 21:47:20
The Organization of American States (OAS) joined the demonstrations of rejection of the actions of the Ecuadorian police and their attack on the Mexican diplomatic headquarters.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Chile expressed its condemnation for the raid by the Ecuadorian police on the Mexican embassy in Quito, in order to arrest former president Jorge Glas, who had received political asylum.
“The Government of Chile remembers that The 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations states that mission premises are inviolable and the agents of the receiving State will not be able to enter them without the consent of the head of the mission,” he indicated in a public statement.
Along these lines, he made it clear that “Chile wishes to convey its feeling of solidarity to all the diplomatic staff of the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador.”
“Likewise, it expresses its deep concern about the violation of the right to asylum, contemplated in the 1954 Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and recognized as a contribution of Latin America to international law,” he added.
OAS joins in showing support for Mexico
For its part, The Organization of American States (OAS) joined the signs of rejection of the actions of the Ecuadorian police and his attack on the Mexican diplomatic headquarters.
In a public statement, the OAS stated that it “rejects any action that violates or puts at risk the inviolability of the premises of diplomatic missions and reiterates the obligation that all States have not to invoke norms of domestic law to justify non-compliance with their obligations.” international obligations.
“In this context, it expresses solidarity with those who were victims of the inappropriate actions that affected the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador. The OAS was also recently the victim of a similar attack in Managua and neither in that case nor in this one are ambiguities admissible, but rather the fullest coherence with International Law,” he stated.