According to President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, the gathering will take place this Tuesday due to the evident violation of the American Convention on Asylum and the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations by the Government of Ecuador.
President Luis Arce assured on Monday that Bolivia will present in CELAC and in all multilateral spaces its position of denouncing what happened at the Mexican embassy in Quito, a fact that puts Latin American and Caribbean unity at risk, as he expressed.
“Any act that affects the State and friendly Mexican people affects us as if it were against ourselves,” declared President Arce during a ceremony held at the Casa Grande del Pueblo (the government headquarters of Bolivia) where he received the credentials from the Mexican ambassador to Bolivia, Eduardo Sosa.
Arce emphasized that for this reason, Bolivia has strongly condemned the invasion of the embassy of the United Mexican States in the Republic of Ecuador by the Ecuadorian police, a fact that violates the Vienna Convention and has no precedent in the history of International Law. He added that Bolivia is respectful of the rules that govern diplomatic relations, and rejects the transgression of the right of asylum to former vice president of Ecuador, Jorge Glas, who was staying at the embassy waiting for safe passage.
“In Ecuador, whose people we deeply respect and with whom we are also united by a common history, the inviolable nature of the headquarters of diplomatic missions was ignored and the Latin American tradition of the right to asylum was broken,” said the president of Bolivia, who repudiated “with the same indignation” the mistreatment of the ambassador, Roberto Canseco, who bravely defended the embassy and Glas, “honoring Mexican tradition.
Arce stressed that the Plurinational State of Bolivia reiterates all its solidarity with Mexico, with the Mexican people and its president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. “I also ratify our willingness to remain united to strengthen our diplomacy for life, for the benefit of integration and peaceful coexistence in our nations,” he said.
He recalled history by saying that Bolivia and Mexico have shared bilateral relations since 1831, based on principles of brotherhood, respect, solidarity, reciprocity, and complementarity.
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