Ecuador maintains a “mirror agreement” with Switzerland as a diplomatic and consular channel in Mexico

Ecuador has achieved a “mirror agreement“with Switzerland as a diplomatic channel and to provide consular support in Mexico, while relations between the two American governments remain broken, the Foreign Ministry in Quito reported this Sunday.

“Mexico and Ecuador will maintain mirror agreements with Switzerland as a diplomatic channel and support in consular services“, stated the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a short message on the WhatsApp network.

This was due to the insistence of the Ecuadorian press for an official comment on Saturday’s announcement in the sense that the Mexican Foreign Minister, Alicia Bárcena, had reached an agreement with her Swiss colleague, Ignazio Cassi, so that diplomatic personnel from that European country protect Mexican properties in Ecuador.

Mexico broke diplomatic relations with Ecuador after on April 5, Ecuadorian police authorities attacked the headquarters of the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest Jorge Glas, a former vice president of Rafael Correa (2007-17), who at that time enjoyed diplomatic asylum granted by the Government of North American country.

The agreement between Barcena and Cassi It was signed in the middle of the visit of the Mexican Foreign Minister to the Swiss city of Nidwalden to participate in the Summit for Peace in Ukraine, with more than 92 high-level delegations, including the Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa.

Mexico accuses Ecuador of breaking the inviolability of its diplomatic headquarters and endangering its diplomatic staff with a violent police raid on its diplomatic headquarters in Quito.

EcuadorHowever, he maintains that Mexico violated international law by interfering in internal affairs and abusing diplomatic immunity by protecting Glas, in addition to violating asylum rules.

The case focuses on glassa former Ecuadorian vice president with convictions for corruption, which he denies and attributes to alleged political persecution, currently detained in a maximum security prison in the coastal city of Guayaquil, whose release and asylum Mexico demands.