After the last humanitarian flight that arrived in Ecuador, the Foreign Ministry reported that 53 Ecuadorians are still in Ukraine by their own decision.
“711 people who fled the war are already in Ecuador,” said the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, Juan Carlos Holguín, this Monday, March 14, 2022.
The foreign minister said that with the humanitarian flight that arrived this morning, the Government has provided Ecuadorians with three flights. In the first, 241 Ecuadorians came (of 246 passengers on the flight); in the second 197 (out of 203) and in the third 143.
In addition, seven Ecuadorians arrived on a humanitarian flight to Mexico and then on a commercial flight managed by the Foreign Ministry to arrive in the country, and 67 Ecuadorians who have returned to the country by their own means.
Of the total, 92% have been brought by the Ecuadorian Government.
He stressed that there are 53 Ecuadorian citizens in Ukraine, but they do not want to return. The critical case is that of Diego Moncayo, who is in the town of Shostka.
He announced that the Foreign Ministry is in contact with him, the International Red Cross and the municipality of that locality, and that several attempts to create a humanitarian corridor for his extraction have been frustrated.
He said that the Foreign Ministry will continue working to get him out of the conflict zone.
From the last flight, 31 citizens who were registered did not show up for the call at the hotel that was the meeting point and they did not show up at the airport either.
Holguín indicated that there is a team from this State portfolio in Poland, led by Vice Minister Luis Vayas, and that work will continue from the Ecuadorian embassies in Hungary and Austria.
The foreign minister reported that none of the seven Ecuadorians who were in Sumy wanted to return to Ecuador.
On the other hand, the case of the boy Dominic Cortés is positive, since he and his mother have already left Ukraine. Minister Holguín said that the boy’s father, David Cortés, personally led the flight, in a case of personal courage. “Today they are in a safe country,” he declared.
He reported that a total of 213 Emergency Passports have been issued during the crisis, and also that three foreign citizens who have arrived on humanitarian flights have requested refuge in Ecuador (one from Belarus, one from Egypt and two from Ukraine).
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