(CNN) –– Ecuadorian President Gabriela Sommerfeld appeared in the National Assembly this Monday, President Noboa himself announced in recent days that, on the orders of President Daniel Nobo, they stopped supplying the United States with military equipment. “Scrap” old equipment
When asked by a lawmaker if Ecuador would transfer military equipment to the United States and then deliver it to Ukraine, the official pointed out that it does not supply military equipment to any country currently in an international armed conflict, and Ecuador is a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.
“Ecuador is part of the United Nations Security Council, and as a member, we promote conflict resolution that respects international law and we encourage peaceful resolution of these disputes,” Sommerfeld said.
Ecuador confirmed it will no longer transfer Soviet military equipment to Ukraine, and Ecuador's Russian ambassador to Ukraine, Vladimir Springen, announced in a statement to two Russian state media this Friday that Ecuador had stopped sending Russian equipment. to America.
In recent days, Kevin Sullivan, undersecretary of the United States Department of State's Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, told local television station Telemazonas that Ecuador was considering handing over Soviet military equipment to Ukraine as part of an exchange agreement. Ecuador and the United States. After this, the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation rejected the idea of treating Soviet military equipment as “scrap” and announced that Russia had given options to keep the equipment in Ecuador.
The Ecuadorian government's decision to refrain from sending Soviet equipment to the United States came hours after Russia lifted an embargo on banana exports to five Ecuadorian companies.
