The objective of the meetings will be to address the diplomatic crisis between Ecuador and Mexico after Ecuadorian forces attacked the Mexican Embassy in Quito to remove former Vice President Luis Glas from there.
The Organization of American States (OAS) has called for an emergency two meetings for this week with the aim of addressing the serious diplomatic crisis unleashed between Ecuador and Mexico after Ecuadorian forces assaulted the Mexican Embassy in Quito to remove former vice president Luis Glas, an ally of Rafael Correa, from there.
The assault led to the breaking of diplomatic relations by Mexico, which last Friday had granted political asylum to Glas and planned to take him out of Quito last weekend.
Ecuador was the first to request a meeting this Sunday to on Tuesday of the Permanent Council of the organization and, a few hours later, Colombia and Bolivia requested another meeting to on Wednesday.
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 (9:00 p.m. in the Basque Country) and will discuss the “Norms of the diplomatic and asylum relations”.
For its part, the meeting requested by Colombia and Bolivia will take place on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. local time (4:00 p.m. in the Basque Country) and will address “the violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and its link with the figure of asylum, as well as the injuries suffered by Mexican diplomatic personnel in Ecuador,” according to the call.
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.
Source: Eitb
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