Mexico Vows To Take Bolivia Before International Court Over Ambassador’s Expulsion, “Harassment”
Credit: youtube.com / María Teresa Mercado, Mexico’s ambassador to Bolivia , was expelled from La Paz Dec. 30, 2019.
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES
Mexico’s ambassador to Bolivia María Teresa Mercado is back home after Bolivia’s interim President Jeanine Áñez Chávez expelled her and two Spanish diplomats Monday for being involved in an alleged plot to help a government official get out of the country. Mexico has reportedly made an appeal to The Hague, Netherlands-based International Court of Justice to safeguard its diplomatic facilities in Bolivia. The ICJ is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946.
Credit: International Court of Justice / Courtroom of The Hague-based ICJ
The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies. Mexico accused the Bolivian government of intimidation and harassment by deploying an overwhelming police presence outside its Embassy in La Paz. Mexico also claimed Bolivia is harassing allies of ousted President Evo Morales at its embassy.
El subsecretario @maximilianoreyz recibió a la embajadora @mtmercado2002 en la #CDMX, donde mantuvieron un encuentro para conocer de viva voz los últimos acontecimientos en Bolivia.
El @GobiernoMX reitera su estrategia de defensa del derecho internacional y diálogo diplomático. pic.twitter.com/HQZebflWjm
— Relaciones Exteriores (@SRE_mx) December 31, 2019
Bolivia´s foreign minister Karen Longaric said Mexico´s appeal to the International Court of Justice to safeguard its diplomatic facilities in Bolivia was a “mistake” and a “legal fallacy,” and the appeal should be withdrawn. “No one can file a lawsuit for unproven facts, no one can be sued for acts they have not committed,” she told journalists in La Paz.
“Bolivia no es una colonia de México”
-Bolivia foreign minister Karen Longaric
Entrevista telefónica con EL PAIS una hora antes de los hechos protagonizados por la embajada de ESPAÑA. EL PAÍS https://t.co/9xsedSyQPy
— Karen Longaric Rodriguez (@KarenLongaric) December 28, 2019
Bolivia’s Deputy Minister of Public Security Denies Mexico’s Claims of Harassment
https://twitter.com/MindeGobierno/status/1209535910481735680?s=20
