2024-04-18 14:22:58
Daniel Noboa, president of Ecuador, assured that does not regret the invasion of the Mexican Embassy in Quito, in an interview for the Australian media SBS News, before his trip to Miami, United States.
Noboa affirmed that he feels on the “right side of history”, despite the condemnation of several countries against Ecuador for the irruption, which occurred on April 5, which caused an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Ecuador and Mexico.
“Do you regret anything?” asked journalist Prue Lewarne, who described the interview as ‘strange’, to which Noboa replied: “zero” and added her reasons: “I think we are on the right side of history. They (OAS) They also condemned that some governments use their embassies as a facade for political refugees, but that in reality there is impunity.”
You might be interested in: Conflict between Iran and Israel generates tension over oil
About the situation of former vice president Jorge Glas, Captured after the raid on the Embassy, the President of the Andean country reiterated that the Correísta politician had his trial and was convicted.
“He (Glas) had a sentence and has to be in jail. That was the decision of our Court of Justice. I have no regrets,” he added when granting the interview in the middle of a presidential event in Puyo, province where on April 10 he met with indigenous nationalities and was accompanied by the Minister of the Environment, Sade Fritschi.
“It was actually a violation first of the Mexican government, and we had to act. We had to make a decision“Noboa indicated, regarding the violation of the Vienna Convention, which for six decades has ruled on the inviolability of Embassies, which is why he pointed out that there are ‘errors’ not only in this treaty, but also in the Treaty of Caracas.
You might be interested in: VIDEO: A bishop and 3 more people are stabbed in a church
It should be remembered that one of the arguments of the Ecuadorian Government is that Mexico violated the provisions of this treaty because it gave political asylum to a person sentenced by justice, by mentioning that Glas had a plan to escape from the Embassy to Mexico.
During the talk with the Australian news site, Noboa also clarified that he does not have any conflict with Mexico and that rather it was the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the “which started these political and diplomatic differences.”
Related
2024-04-18 14:22:58