THE HAGUE: Thursday the highest world organ of justice is announcing its judgment on an urgent application by Mexico’s to order Ecuador to safeguard the Mexican embassy properties in Quito after which it was stormed to arrest a former deputy president.
For Latin America, the assault happened five days ago on April 5 and drew widespread criticism, making people from this continent angry because it had been anticipated for long that such an event could happen since December when Glas, who has already been found guilty of crimes he committed, took shelter in this diplomatic representation.
Alejandro Celorio Alcantara is attorney-at-law at Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and lectured at ICJ hearing about Ecuador’s transgression “of some international law red lines.”
The session scheduled for Thursday will be among other pre-trial phases of Mexico’s claim that accuses Ecuador of violating international law and seeks to have it suspended from UN ranks until it publicly admits having broken fundamental principles and regulations governing global interaction as well as compensates Mexico.
The case will drag on for years. Meantime, however, Mexico’s would like Ecuador to be ordered by the Court “to take all appropriate and immediate steps necessary to ensure full protection and security of diplomatic premises” as well as stop further break-ins into them. Besides, the claimant urges the same state to permit it remove its diplomats’ belongings both from official offices and residential places.
“The Hague-based court” heard out Andres Teran Parral who acted as Ecuador’s legal representative in defending his country’s decision on breaching into Mexican Embassy according to which he called Jorge Glas a “common offender”.
He also maintained that it is not necessary for ICJ now because Quito has already observed all demands put forward by Mexico.