Mexico has asked the UN to expel Ecuador over the police raid on its embassy in Quito last week, the latest escalation in a diplomatic feud that has erupted between the two Latin American countries.
Mexican officials said on Thursday that they had filed a complaint at the International Court of Justice, the UN’s top court, asking the organisation to suspend Ecuador pending a public apology for the raid last Friday on the Mexican embassy, in which officials captured Ecuador’s former vice-president, Jorge Glas.
“The court, in accordance with the United Nations charter, should approve the expulsion, and there should be no veto [from the UN Security Council],” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said at a press conference.