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Mexico set to take Ecuador to top UN court for raid on embassy
Mexico's legal advisor Alejandro Celorio Alcantar (centre) and agent and ambassador Carmen Moreno Toscano (centre right) and members of the delegation gave a brief statement outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, April 30, 2024

MEXICO was set to take Ecuador to the top United Nations court today, accusing it of violating international law when police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice-president who had just been given asylum by Mexico.

The April 5 raid, which took place hours after Mexico’s grant of asylum to former vice-president Jorge Glas, brought to a peak tensions that had been brewing between the two countries since Mr Glas took refuge at the embassy in December.

Leaders across Latin America condemned the raid as a blatant violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.

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