Canada establishes its position regarding the invasion of the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador

The government of Canada reported tonight, Saturday, April 6, its position on the diplomatic crisis between Ecuador and Mexicoafter Last Friday, the Police of the South American country broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest the former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas.

By order of President Manuel Andrés López Obrador, the government of Mexico broke relations today, Saturday, with the government of Ecuador, headed by Daniel Noboa Azín.

The former vice president Jorge Glas He was in the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador since December 2023. According to the Ecuadorian portal First fruitsGlas was on provisional release and was processing his pre-release for his sentence of eight years in prison for the crime of briberyof which he had already served a little more than five years, when he took refuge in the embassy and requested asylum because the Prosecutor’s Office Ecuador announced its intention to prosecute him now for peculation.

Former Ecuadorian vice president Jorge Glas, detained at the Mexican Embassy in Ecuador

Canada sets its position on the Ecuador-Mexico crisis

At 7:11 this Saturday night, the Canadian Foreign Affairs Office He reported that “is deeply concerned about Ecuador’s apparent violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by entering the Mexican Embassy without authorization“.

“We call on all countries to respect both international law and the integrity of domestic legal processese We urge Mexico and Ecuador to engage in dialogue to resolve their differences in the spirit of peaceful coexistence typical of our close regional partners,” the agency added on its official account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

Canada is deeply concerned at Ecuador’s apparent breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by entering the Embassy of Mexico without authorization.

— Foreign Policy CAN (@CanadaFP) April 7, 2024

Canadagoverned by Prime Minister Justin Trudeauestablished its position in the Ecuador-Mexico diplomatic conflict a few minutes before the United States, which did the same through the State Department spokesperson, Matthew Miller.