Mexico announced this Saturday the ““indefinite closure” of its embassy in Quito after the Ecuadorian Police broke into the premises “by force” on Friday to arrest the former vice president of EcuadorJorge Glas, who remained a refugee and was processing asylum since last December at the diplomatic legation.

Furthermore, the Mexican Foreign Ministry has indicated that “will evacuate all diplomatic personnel and their families“, after what he describes as a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

“On instructions from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Alicia Bárcena Ibarra, coordinates the return of diplomatic personnel accredited in Ecuador, along with their families, after the violent attack perpetrated by the Ecuadorian Police on the Mexican Embassy on the night of Friday, April 5,” Foreign Affairs reported in a statement.

Thus, a total of 18 people are traveling this Sunday on a commercial flight from Ecuador to Mexico City, according to Bárcena’s note, who thanked “a large number of friendly and allied countries” for their support.

For her part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ecuador, Gabriela Sommerfeld, has justified the decision to break into the embassy Mexican in Quito alleging that there was a “real risk of imminent flight” of the former vice president, who has been transferred to maximum security prison of La Roca, reserved for the most dangerous prisoners.

International rejection

Meanwhile, the assault on the embassy has met with a international condemnation. The OASOrganization of American States, has rejected through a statement “any action that violates or puts at risk the inviolability of diplomatic missions and reiterates the obligation that all States have not to invoke norms of domestic law to justify non-compliance with their international obligations.”

USA has also condemned the events and has asked Ecuador and Mexico to resolve “their differences” in accordance with International Law. They have also emphasized “the obligation of host countries to respect the inviolability of diplomatic missions.”

The European Union He has also joined the rejection of the intervention of the Ecuadorian Police in the Quito embassy. The head of community diplomacy, Josep Borrellexpressed his disagreement this Sunday in a message published on his social network account X. “I condemn the violation of the facilities of the Mexican Embassy in Quito in a clear breach of the 1961 Vienna Convention. I call on you to respect international diplomatic law,” she wrote.

This international rejection has also been added Spainwhere José Manuel Albares, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has made “a call for respect for international law and harmony between Mexico and Ecuador” through a statement, in which he also condemned “the forcible entry into the Mexican Embassy in Quito.” “It represents a violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations of 1961,” he concluded.

The Governments of Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Panama, Chile, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Colombia have also joined in condemning the events.