A digital summit of Latin American heads of state and government to discuss and condemn Ecuador’s police raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito a week ago, which was expected to take place today, has been postponed until Tuesday (16 April). , announced the president of Honduras, who holds the pro tempore presidency of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).

“At the request of Mexico, the meeting has been postponed until Tuesday at 09:00 (Honduras time; 18:00 Greece time),” Xiomara Castro explained via X.

Ecuador’s police raid on the Mexican embassy on April 5 to arrest the country’s corruption-accused ex-vice president Jorge Glass, who had taken refuge in the diplomatic mission in December, caused Mexico to sever bilateral diplomatic relations with Quito and international outcry.

CELAC leaders are expected to release a decision expressing “strong condemnation” of the action and possibly imposing sanctions on Ecuador.

They will consider a proposal asking Quito to “promote dialogue on the normalization of relations with Mexico” and, failing that, to adopt “political positions” against it, which will be either “joint, bilateral”, or will be taken by “international organizations” to be “obliged” to comply.

They will discuss a draft resolution that will “strongly condemn” Ecuador for “illegal entry into the Mexican embassy in Quito, the use of unnecessary force and the violation of the principle of inviolability of diplomatic missions” in the context of the police operation to “kidnap” former Vice President Jorge Glass.

The Vienna Convention (1961) provides that embassies and consulates are “inviolable” establishments.