THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The leading United Nations court is ruling Thursday on an immediate demand by Mexico to buy Ecuador to secure Mexican diplomatic residential or commercial property in the after-effects of the storming of the embassy in Quito to apprehend a previous vice president.
The April 5 raid, hours after Mexico gave asylum to previous Vice President Jorge Glas, drew extensive condemnation in Latin America and ratcheted up stress that had actually been brewing in between the 2 nations considering that Glas, a founded guilty criminal and fugitive, took haven at the embassy in December.
At a hearing late last month, Alejandro Celorio Alcantara, legal advisor for Mexico’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, informed International Court of Justice judges Ecuador’s actions violated “lines in worldwide law which must not be crossed.”
Thursday’s hearing comes at an initial stage of a case submitted by Mexico implicating Ecuador of breaching worldwide law and asking the court to suspend Ecuador as member of the United Nations till the nation problems “a public apology acknowledging its offenses to the essential concepts and standards of worldwide law” and accepts reparations.
The case will likely take years to deal with. In the meantime, Mexico desires the court to buy Ecuador to take “proper and instant actions to supply complete defense and security of diplomatic properties” and avoid any additional invasions. It likewise desires Ecuador to let Mexico clear its diplomatic properties and the homes of its diplomats in the nation.
At public hearings at the Hague-based court, the head of Ecuador’s legal group, Andres Teran Parral, safeguarded storming the Mexican Embassy, informing judges that his nation acted to take custody of Glas, whom he called “a typical bad guy.”
He likewise stated that the ICJ doesn’t require to act now since Quito has actually currently adhered to the steps looked for by Mexico.