MEXICO CITY/THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Mexico has asked the top court of the United Nations to suspend Ecuador’s membership until the South American country issues a public apology for its raid on Mexico’s embassy in Quito, court filings released by the International Court of Justice showed yesterday.
The case filed by Mexico accuses Ecuador of violating international law and a U.N. treaty on diplomatic relations by carrying out an armed raid on the Mexican embassy.
It asks the court to suspend Ecuador from the U.N. unless and until it issues “a public apology recognizing its violations to the fundamental principles and norms of international law, to guarantee the reparation to the moral harm inflicted upon the United Mexican States and its affected nationals”.
Diplomatic ties between the two countries have been suspended since Friday, when Ecuadorean police forcefully entered the embassy in order to arrest former Vice President Jorge Glas, who had sought and been granted political asylum in Mexico.
