"The lawsuit requests that it be decreed and declared that the United Mexican States have failed to comply, among others, with their obligations not to grant asylum to persons who are being prosecuted or tried for common crimes or who have been convicted by competent ordinary courts," the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicated in a statement posted on the X social network (formerly Twitter). According to Ecuador, Mexico had the obligation to hand over Glas to the Ecuadorian authorities, under both Article 3 of the 1954 Convention on Diplomatic Asylum and Article 1 of the 1933 Convention on Political Asylum, which stipulate that those who have been criminally prosecuted or convicted cannot receive asylum. Quito's complaint to the ICJ also asks that it declare that Mexico "violated the principles of sovereign equality, territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs of other States, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Organization of American States and in International Customary Law." It also accuses Mexico of violating its duty to "cooperate in combating corruption," under Article 14, on assistance and cooperation, of the 1996 Inter-American Convention against Corruption, as well as Articles 43, 46 and 48 of the 2003 United Nations Convention against Corruption, based on international cooperation, mutual legal assistance and cooperation in law enforcement. Ecuador also argued that, due to the "false and injurious statements" issued by the Mexican head of state, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which call into question "the legitimacy of the 2023 elections," Mexico "violated the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other States." For its part, Mexico had filed a complaint against Ecuador with the ICJ on April 11, to urge the country to be held accountable for the "flagrant violation of the inviolability of the Embassy, against the physical and moral integrity" of its diplomats. The ICJ, the highest judicial body of the UN, reported two weeks ago that the hearings for this case will be held this week, on Tuesday and Wednesday. On April 5, Ecuadorian police raided the Mexican embassy in Quito, where former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas had been taking refuge for several weeks, claiming to fear for his safety. Mexico had confirmed shortly before the police operation that it would grant political asylum to the former 'number two' of President Rafael Correa. Ecuadorian authorities accuse former Vice President Glas of an alleged crime of embezzlement of public funds intended for reconstruction work in the province of Manabí, after the strong earthquake of 2016, which caused more than 670 deaths. Read Also: Military helicopter crash in Ecuador kills eight crew members (Portuguese version)