Ecuador’s Vice President Veronica Abad has said she will travel to Israel to support peace efforts in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, complying with a task assigned to her by President Daniel Noboa which she had previously critiqued, Reuters reports.
Noboa assigned her the sole function of collaborating with peace efforts between Israel and Hamas in a presidential decree, a role that Abad is expected to fulfill from Ecuador’s embassy in Tel Aviv.
She responded with a social media video over the weekend marking International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and decrying abuses of power where “they minimise you and send you to die in war.”
She will comply with the order to “guarantee constitutional stability” and avoid accusations of abandonment of her post, Abad told reporters in Quito.
“This morning I asked for the information needed to carry out the mission with success,” she said. She offered no date for her trip. “I’m not abandoning the ship. They are sending me far away,” she added.
