In a press release published Wednesday evening, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges French nationals “to adopt the greatest caution and to carefully follow the evolution of the situation.”
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Paris asks its nationals who would consider going to Ecuador to “postpone their plans”according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “We invite French nationals residing in Ecuador to exercise the greatest caution and to carefully follow the evolution of the situation, referring to the instructions of the French Embassy in Quito”it is also written in a press release published in the evening, Wednesday January 10.
“France is carefully following the situation in Ecuador and expresses its concern about acts of violence and hostage-taking.”
French Ministry of Foreign Affairsin a press release
Daniel Noboa, lhe Ecuadorian president, recognized on Tuesday a “internal armed conflict” in his country marked in recent days by spectacular actions: the escape of several gang leaders, the kidnapping of police officers and a hostage-taking live on television. A state of emergency was declared on Monday and President Daniel Noboa ordered “the mobilization and intervention of the armed forces and the national police”.
