ECUADOR
Worn Out Welcome
Ecuador is looking for somebody – anybody – to help negotiate Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange’s exit from its embassy in London.
“We have an enormous interest in finding a definitive solution to the Assange case and for that to happen, we’re in a permanent dialogue with the government of the United Kingdom,” Bloomberg quoted Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa as saying in Quito on Tuesday. Mediation by a third country could be the answer, she said.
Awarded diplomatic asylum in mid-2012 on the grounds that his life might be in danger were he extradited to the US, Assange relations with Ecuador soured over the past year as he clashed with President Lenin Moreno over social media and caused trouble by leaking documents damaging to Hillary Clinton during the US presidential election and backed the Catalonian separatists in Spain.
Moreno has warned Assange not to get involved in the affairs of other countries.
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