This Tuesday in the morning conference, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador pointed out that It is necessary that the United Nations (UN) decide to expel Ecuadorgiven that otherwise it will remain like a ‘vase’.
“If this is not done, the UN will remain like a vase, nothing more than decoration and it cannot be allowed to be broken, international law violated as was done in the case of Ecuador, because otherwise it would be the law of the most strong, the world of gorillas, with all due respect to the gorillas,” said the president.
This request from the Mexican president arises after The Government of Mexico formally denounced to the UN the invasion of his embassy in Quito and also requested that the file containing photos be circulated among the members of the institution, this to analyze the request for expulsion.
The president also considered it necessary for the International Court of Justice to address Mexico’s claims against Ecuador, due to the infringement of Jorge Glas’s right to asylum.
“First, separation of Ecuador from the United Nations, as long as it does not make a statement offering a commitment of non-repetition. The acceptance that they violated our sovereignty. It is also important to us that there is no repetition in any case and this is the time for any State to violate the sovereignty of an Embassy in another country and violate the right of asylum, international law and be expelled from the UN,” he added. .
Lopez Obrador He revealed that this Tuesday he will hold a meeting with presidents and foreign ministers of different Latin American countries, this to analyze his proposal to eliminate Ecuador from the UN and any other country that commits this type of act.
“Our approach is aimed at that, to temporarily expel him as long as there is no apology offer. At the same time, if this occurs again in any country in the world, there is already a procedure (punishment),” he explained.
How many times has AMLO called the UN a ‘vase’?
Although it may seem incredible, President López Obrador has called the UN a ‘vase’ on different occasions. Here the details:
- The president called the UN a ‘vase’, after rejecting the invitation to present his criticisms of the General Assembly, because he considered that the problems of corruption and concentration of power in the world were not addressed; This occurred during the month of September 2022.
“It is a bureaucratic section that is being left out like a vase and that costs a lot,” he declared on the morning of September 14, 2022.
- López Obrador too accused the UN of speaking out against his government’s security strategy; We are referring to the assignment of the National Guard to the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena). Here he also criticized an alleged inability to stop the war in Ukraine.
“What does the UN do, what has it become? It’s a vase. It is time for changes, enough of simulation and hypocrisy,” he said on the morning of September 9, 2022.
- The president also called the UN a ‘vase’ for not designing a plan to address the serious problem of migrants.
“It’s like an ornament, a vase,” he expressed on the morning of September 21, 2023.
- Another of the occasions in which AMLO named the UN ‘vase’ was when the problem of vaccines was faced against COVID-19. This expression was used for the same reason during the morning of February 23, 2021 and October 23, 2022.
“The UN has to intervene because it looks like a vase, it is for decoration,” he said on the morning of October 23, 2022.
In conclusion, There have been 6 times in which President López Obrador has described the UN as a ‘vase’this when considering the president’s most recent statement, but for different reasons.
