The Organization of American States (OAS) convened two emergency meetings with the aim of addressing the serious diplomatic crisis unleashed between Ecuador and Mexico after Ecuadorian forces attacked the Mexican Embassy in Quito to remove former vice president Luis Glas, an ally, from there. by Rafael Correa.
The assault led to the breaking of diplomatic relations by Mexico, which had granted political asylum to Glas last Friday and planned to take him out of Quito this weekend.
Statement from the General Secretariat of the OAS on events in Ecuador pic.twitter.com/cZ9jLDuXaI
— Luis Almagro (@Almagro_OEA2015) April 6, 2024
Ecuador was the first to request this Sunday a meeting for Tuesday of the organization’s Permanent Council and, a few hours later, Colombia and Bolivia requested another meeting for Wednesday.
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The extraordinary meeting of the OAS promoted by Ecuador has been convened on Tuesday at the organization’s headquarters in Washington at 3:00 p.m. local time (7:00 p.m. GMT) and will discuss the “Rules of diplomatic relations and of asylum”.
For its part, the meeting requested by Colombia and Bolivia will take place on Wednesday at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) and will address “the violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and its link with the figure of the asylum, as well as the injuries suffered by Mexican diplomatic personnel in Ecuador,” according to the call.
The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, already announced on Saturday on the social network
The Secretary General of the OAS, Luis Almagro, also announced yesterday that he planned to request a meeting of the Permanent Council of the institution to discuss the issue, after having unequivocally rejected the assault on the embassy and “any action that violates or puts at risk “the inviolability enjoyed by diplomatic missions.
Almagro also expressed on Saturday his “solidarity with those who were victims of the inappropriate actions that affected the Mexican embassy in Ecuador,” a reaction that coincides with that of most of the international community.
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