Mexico seeks Ecuador’s expulsion from UN

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s president said Thursday his country wants the United Nations to suspend Ecuador from the world body as part of a complaint to the top UN court over Ecuador’s police raid last week on the Mexican embassy in Quito.

Tensions between Mexico and Ecuador have soared since late last week when Ecuadorian authorities forced their way into the diplomatic mission to arrest Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas who had been holed up there seeking asylum in Mexico.

Mexico filed its complaint Thursday at the International

Court of Justice in the Netherlands asking the UN to suspend Ecuador, although a UN spokesman said it would be up to other member states to decide on suspending a country.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, at a news conference in Mexico City, railed against Ecuador and said that the court, “in accordance with the United Nations charter, should approve the expulsion, and there should be no veto” from the UN Security Council.

He said Mexico is demanding a public apology, reparation of damages, and a promise not to do it again.