MEXICO CITY, April 13. /TASS/. Mexico's Permanent Mission to the UN sent a letter to the organization's secretariat complaining about the actions of Ecuador, which stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic.

"The Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations (UN), Hector Vasconcelos y Cruz, today delivered to the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs a communication addressed to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denouncing the serious violations committed by the Republic of Ecuador on April 5, when Ecuadorian security forces violently broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito and attacked the physical integrity and dignity of its diplomatic personnel," the Foreign Ministry said.

Mexico asked the UN Secretary General to disseminate the information about Ecuador’s illegal actions among members of the organization. Mexican diplomats indicated that the letter to Guterres complements the lawsuit filed by Mexico against Ecuador at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

On April 5, the Mexican authorities said they had granted former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas political asylum and had asked the Ecuadorian side for permission to take him out of Quito. On the same day the Ecuadorian police stormed the Mexican Embassy in Quito and arrested Glas. Mexico announced severance of diplomatic relations with Ecuador.

The former Vice President of Ecuador is accused of corruption. Glas was already serving a prison sentence from 2017 to 2022. Last December, the Mexican Foreign Ministry reported that the politician had requested asylum at the country's embassy in Quito. Previously, the diplomatic mission had refused to allow the police to arrest Glas.