Member LoginMember Login - User registration - Setup as front page - Add to favorites - Sitemap Ecuador announces complaint against Mexico at top UN court in diplomatic spat !

Ecuador announces complaint against Mexico at top UN court in diplomatic spat

Time:2024-05-21 14:50:29 source:International Interactions news portal

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador announced Monday it has filed a complaint at the top U.N. court against Mexico over its decision to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to Ecuador’s highly criticized raid on the Mexican Embassy earlier this month.

Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the complaint at the International Court of Justice cites Mexico’s government because of its move to grant asylum to former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had been convicted of corruption.

Mexico failed to comply with “its obligations not to grant asylum to people who are being prosecuted or on trial for common crimes or have been convicted by competent ordinary courts,” the statement said. The ministry did not immediately provide a copy of the complaint to The Associated Press.

Police raided Mexico’s embassy April 5 and arrested Glas hours after he was granted political asylum in an extremely rare show of force that legal experts, presidents elsewhere in Latin America and diplomats deemed a violation of long-established international accords.

Related information
  • Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect
  • Montana man gets 2 1/2 years in prison for leaving threatening voicemails for Senator Jon Tester
  • Fury road! Anya Taylor
  • Biden to travel to North Carolina to meet with families of officers killed in deadly shooting
  • The government wants to buy their flood
  • Workers rule the streets on May Day
  • Barbra Streisand goes full diva and asks Melissa McCarthy if she is on Ozempic
  • Georgia governor signs law requiring jailers to check immigration status of prisoners
Recommended content
  • Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University
  • Donald Trump's glamorous aide Margo Martin looks stylish as she heads to court with him in a figure
  • USC and UCLA to play two men's basketball games apiece at Big Ten's easternmost schools
  • WNBA ticket sales on StubHub are up 93%. Aces, Caitlin Clark and returning stars fuel rise
  • Kosovo prepares a new draft law on renting prison cells to Denmark after the first proposal failed
  • Biden to travel to North Carolina to meet with families of officers killed in deadly shooting