Luis Narváez, Consul of Ecuador in Ukraine, spoke exclusively with LA HORA about the evacuation of Ecuadorians. He said that the Foreign Ministry “does everything possible.”
Lviv is a city of Ukraine which is very close to Poland; an hour and a half away. There has been, for two days, the Ecuadorian consul Luis Narvaezcoordinating aid to compatriots seeking to escape the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
He comments that among what they have achieved so far, as a diplomatic corps, is ensuring the use of three private cars lent by Ecuadorians that came out of Ukraine and left the keys. With these three vehicles, they hope, starting tomorrow (February 26, 2022), to start mobilize Ecuadorians towards Poland. He calculates that if they make three trips and three returns, they could evacuate up to 60 people a day.
He confirmed the announcement made on February 24 by Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín: Poland and Slovakia (now also Hungary) opened their doors to Ecuadorians. At the border they will give you a temporary visa which will last 15 days. But they will not be able to leave those two countries, he clarified Narvaez. That is, the Ecuadorians that they arrive at Poland or Slovakia You have 15 days to take a flight back to Ecuador. Flights that can only make a stopover in Madrid and Amsterdam. They will also not be able to leave the airport of those transit countries.
Until today (February 25) they have no official record of the Ecuadorians that they have come out They “have left on their own,” assured the Consul. From tomorrow it will be counted to the students to take one of the three borrowed cars, from the Lviv polytechnic university campus.
They hope to reach an agreement to be able to cover the food of the Ecuadorians who arrive Poland. However, he does not know if this is already organized because it depends on another diplomatic team.
Over the students from Zaporizhzhya who they cannot leave the city and that they are 800 kilometers from Lvivthe Consul recommended that they “leave by their own means” and -he added- that diplomacy will wait for them at the border. (GVL)
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