The Foreign Ministry issued a statement calling for respect for international conventions. “In no case is forced entry into the diplomatic mission justified,” he said.
He Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRREE) spoke out in rejection of the police raid on the Mexico’s embassy in Ecuador and the capture of the former vice president Jorge Glas. “Uruguay deeply regrets the events that have occurred in the last few hours,” he said in a statement, in which he noted that “in no case” is “forced entry into the diplomatic mission”.
Latin American diplomatic relations are going through tense moments with several crossings between leaders of different countries in the region. The most recent was the announcement by the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the rupture of relations between Mexico and Ecuador after a police group from the country led by Daniel Noboa broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito to capture Glas, who was vice president during the government of Rafael Correa, between 2013 and 2018.
In this regard, the Chancellery considered that “the events that occurred in the last few hours” in Ecuador “have affected the relations between two sister nations, as well as respect for fundamental norms of international law and for the peaceful coexistence between Latin American nations”; something that was “deeply” lamented by the government.
In that sense, the portfolio led by Omar Paganini recalled that “last March 28, when commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Caracas Convention on Diplomatic Asylum, Uruguay highlighted the importance of this legal institute with a long tradition in Latin America and encouraged States to reaffirm and respect it.” “This conventional source is ‘closely linked to other fundamental instruments of international law to regulate relations between States, such as Vienna Convention of 1961′, which enshrine the inviolability of diplomatic missions,” he continued.
“This has been fundamental to guarantee peaceful coexistence between nations, so its ignorance is absolutely unacceptable,” added the official statement.
Likewise, he called for respect for the Caracas Convention, which applies to both the territorial State and the isolating State, “who must especially take into account in which cases it would not be appropriate to grant diplomatic asylum, including people prosecuted for common crimes.” Glas was convicted by the Ecuadorian Justice of corruption and was taking refuge in the Embassy of Mexico in Quito since last December.
In any case, the MRREE maintained that “there are mechanisms to handle these situations that in no case justify forced entry into the diplomatic mission.”
“The government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay hope that soon, both Mexico as Ecuador, sister nations, can embark on the path that leads to the reestablishment of their diplomatic relations,” concluded the text shared by the official accounts of the Foreign Ministry.
Source: Ambito
