The United Kingdom would Ecuador have warned that the embassy where Assange is located, can enter, and the Wikileaks frontman can arrest. Thursday decides Ecuador on Assanges asylum application.
The Ecuadorian foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, declares a letter from the British embassy in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, to receive which the threat is. “Ecuador would need to be aware of,” says the letter, “that there is a legal basis in the United Kingdom, the Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act 1987, that allows us to take action to mr. Assange in the embassy to arrest him.”
The minister showed himself, according to the British newspaper The Guardian shocked by the threat and pointed out that it is a clear violation of international law and the Treaty of Vienna would involve the United Kingdom actually to take action would proceed. A spokesman for the British ministry of foreign affairs said that the country is simply position wanted to make clear. The United Kingdom should Assange extradition to Sweden, where he is suspected of several sexual assaults.
The founder of Wikileaks was looking for 56 days ago sought refuge in the embassy of Ecuador and stay there pending a decision on his asylum application. Thursday afternoon at 14.00 pm Dutch time would that decision be made known. According to a source from The Guardian, who is familiar with the plans of the Ecuadorian government, would the country decide to give Assange asylum grant. At the Ecuadorian embassy in London have activists, police and the press gathered.