Venezuela Shuts Ecuador Diplomatic Missions Over Raid
Sumaira FH Published April 16, 2024 | 11:42 PM
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday he had ordered the closure of his country's diplomatic missions in Ecuador after a raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito
Caracas, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 16th Apr, 2024) Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said Tuesday he had ordered the closure of his country's diplomatic missions in Ecuador after a raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito.
Maduro said he has ordered "diplomatic personnel to return to Venezuela immediately... until international law is restored in Ecuador."
He was speaking during a virtual summit of CELAC, the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, in which presidents from across the region are mulling possible sanctions against Ecuador.
Ecuadoran security forces stormed the Mexican embassy on April 5 to arrest former Ecuadoran vice president Jorge Glas, who is wanted on corruption charges and had been granted asylum by Mexico.
Maduro demanded that Glas be freed from the maximum-security prison where he is now being held and handed over to Mexico.
The rare incursion on diplomatic territory sparked an international outcry, and led Mexico to break ties with Ecuador, pulling its diplomats out of the country.
Mexico has filed a lawsuit against Ecuador at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, saying it wants the country suspended from the United Nations.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the goal of the suit was "that this doesn't repeat itself in any other country in the world, that international law is guaranteed."
Several Latin American states, Spain, the European Union, United States and the UN chief have condemned the embassy intrusion as a violation of the 1961 Vienna Convention governing diplomatic relations.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has defended the embassy raid as necessary to detain Glas because he posed a flight risk, saying he was willing to "resolve any difference" with Mexico, though an Ecuadoran court has since ruled the operation was "illegal and arbitrary."
The high court ruling said the arrest was illegal since security forces had no warrant to enter the embassy. But the court added Glas would remain in a high security prison in the port of Guayaquil pending two other cases of corruption.
Glas, who served as vice president from 2013 to 2017, faces graft charges stemming from his time in office.
Related Topics
Recent Stories
Wembanyama in France: NBA Spurs to play Pacers in Paris in January
Russian missile kills two in Ukraine's Odesa: governor
Dutch Embassy celebrates King Willem-Alexander's birthday
Need of concrete steps stressed for safe, nutritious milk availability
Scotland's leader Yousaf quits after a year
Services of GDA Pakistan China Friendship Hospital launched
Mining giants Vale, BHP propose $25 bn settlement over Brazil dam collapse
Georgia ruling party stages mass rally to counter protests
Bayern ready for 'extraordinary' Bellingham, says Tuchel
PTI leaders get interim bail
Tennis: ATP/WTA Madrid Open results - 2nd update
French actor Depardieu released after sexual assault questioning
More Stories From World
-
Russian missile kills two in Ukraine's Odesa: governor
11 minutes ago -
Scotland's leader Yousaf quits after a year
23 minutes ago -
Mining giants Vale, BHP propose $25 bn settlement over Brazil dam collapse
25 minutes ago -
Georgia ruling party stages mass rally to counter protests
18 minutes ago -
Bayern ready for 'extraordinary' Bellingham, says Tuchel
18 minutes ago -
French actor Depardieu released after sexual assault questioning
18 minutes ago
-
Children's shoes highlight Gaza's Khan Younis city exodus chaos: UN
18 minutes ago -
Spain PM Sanchez walks back from resignation threat
18 minutes ago -
Dozens killed as dam bursts in flood-hit Kenya
18 minutes ago -
G7 reportedly agrees end date for coal-fired power plants
28 minutes ago -
Forty-day ceasefire offered to Hamas: UK foreign secretary
2 hours ago -
Mining giants Vale, BHP propose $25 bn settlement over Brazil dam collapse
2 hours ago