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Ecuador hits back at the UK over the Assange asylum case in London
Ecuador has hit back at the UK government over who is to blame for the deadlock in the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The 44-year-old Australian has been living in Ecuador's embassy in London for more than three years to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault allegations. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesYAWN.....self inflicted...he put himself in deadlock no pressure on UK one bit, pressure must be getting to them to get the rapist squatter out on his arse.
Aug 17th, 2015 - 08:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Play it cool house arrest with eventual arrest happy days one more rapist behind bars...meanwhile another drink please waiter
Not our stone; not our shoe. Ecuador must rue the day they let that fame-hungry bail-jumper into their embassy. They just did not think it through.
Aug 17th, 2015 - 08:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Time lapse a little further down the road:
Aug 17th, 2015 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0“It is not acceptable to try to place the responsibility for the lack of progress in this area over the last twenty years on Ecuador,” he said.
Even if the last charges are dropped, did Assange not commit a crime in England by jumping bail?
Dont most embassies get two policemen as security?
Aug 17th, 2015 - 11:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's not our fault it's everybody elses, weep, weep, gnash teeth - sounds familiar somehow
Aug 17th, 2015 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'd have to agree with Lassoo. Can't blame Ecuador for five years. Just the last three. Lassoo makes a deliberate mistake in referring to political asylum. Political asylum may be appropriate if a person fears persecution IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY. How was he going to be persecuted in Australia? So Ecuador came up with “diplomatic asylum”. A peculiarly south american institution that isn't recognised anywhere else in the world. Is it any surprise that Britain wanted to take the bail-jumper? The Bail Act doesn't appear to have any limitations. He can be arrested anytime for the rest of his life. Where will he go? Isn't he subject to a European Arrest Warrant? So nowhere in Europe. Perhaps he'd like to join his pal in Russia.
Aug 17th, 2015 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 01,154 days and counting!
Aug 17th, 2015 - 01:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Woohoo.
Keep going.
'“The Republic of Ecuador will not take lessons from any foreign government, least of all those that are unaware of the institution of political asylum; its legitimacy, attached and enshrined in international law, and its humanitarian nature based on the sovereign equality of nations.”
Aug 17th, 2015 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Ecuador introduced a uniquely Latin American “institution of political asylum” in order to afford succour to an alleged sexual offender which is not recognised outside of the sub-continent. Therefore, this statement is utter nonsense.
The Ecuadorian socialist dictator, Rafael Correa, had and continues to have a personal problem with relations with the USA and to afford asylum to Assange
was a way of “cocking a snook” at Washington and, indeed, at the UK.
He knew that under international protocol the premises of the Ecuadorian Embassy were inviolate and, thus, he could “kill two birds with one stone”.
Ecuador are, of course, entirely to to blame for the cost to the British taxpayer of the police operation in London and, of this, there absolutely no doubt.
But then Ecuador is similar to Argentina - they can be blamed for nothing as it is always the fault somebody's else.
I had the misfortune to live and work in Ecuador for many years.
At least he is not in jail......lolololololol
Aug 17th, 2015 - 04:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#4 US uses their own security....Marines and State Intelligence Agency.
How dare we have an invasive police presence on our own streets in one of our own cities!
Aug 17th, 2015 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@8. No. You'll find “diplomatic immunity” amongst the south american demands of the OAS. Neither Canada nor the United States subscribe. Of course, south america just likes control. South america likes to be “special”. But it should be be deemed unworthy of existence. Exterminate!
Aug 17th, 2015 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Diplomatic immunity was created because of the regularity of the coupes. Now they buy votes and change the constitution in order to consolidate power.
Aug 17th, 2015 - 06:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It seems that ARZ is expanding into ARZE…
Aug 17th, 2015 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Join the club Ecuador!
http://www.oas.org/juridico/english/treaties/a-46.html
Aug 17th, 2015 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Please note article III - it seems that Assange is an exception!
Contrary to Lassasshole, it is very acceptable to “try to place the responsibility for the lack of progress in this area over the last five years on Ecuador,”
Aug 17th, 2015 - 08:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If Ecuador had never given Assange asylum, there would be no diplomatic problem. And, as gordo1 correctly points out @14, Ecuador is in breach of the OAS Convention.
And I fail to see how only ”threats“ to ”violate the immunity of diplomatic premises” , or how placing a Police cordon “outside” the Embassy, can be considered a “violation of premises” and/or “invasive”...
@15. It's unfortunate that the British government didn't realise how long Assange might hold out. I think we can see that there was a point when Ecuador got a bit pissed off. Remember when they started whittering on about his lack of sunlight? Perhaps a better idea, still possible, would be for the UK to break off diplomatic relations with Ecuador, giving their mission 7 days to leave the country. Therefore no “diplomatic” accommodation. Does he come out when the food runs out, or do we go in and get him? There's a list of who is supposed to be in the accommodation. Perfectly reasonable to check everyone leaving.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 11:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Somebody should just set off the fire alarm.
Aug 18th, 2015 - 03:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@16
Aug 18th, 2015 - 07:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Breaking off diplomatic relations with Ecuador is probably the best solution. What benefit does it bring to the UK ? None. But cutting off the water and power at the Embassy would be a good idea....and no-one allowed in or out. Soon it would resemble the sewers of Guayaquil...
@17 idlehands
Aug 18th, 2015 - 07:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good idea. Or a bomb scare. Or play Really loud music outside their consulate all night, ensuring Assange can't get any sleep. But Assange can stay in there and rot for all I care. Personally I believe the UK should suspend diplomatic relations with Ecuador for being in breach of the Vienna accord by giving shelter to a criminal.
It's Ecuador that would actually suffer, not the UK. But I suppose we're just too grown up to act like that. Correa won't be president forever, and the next incumbent might not be happy with the taint on Ecuadors reputation, and of course the money its costing them.
it seems camoron, swire and the rest of the english twats are nervous, ehh?
Aug 18th, 2015 - 11:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0i say they they are afraid of the usa.
remember, england has always been the lapdog of the usa.
even more with fatty camoron in charge.
and he has received an order that he cannot meet.
sad, sad, sad...lol
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LoE4ywdvACs/UiCkFdCY3tI/AAAAAAAAjYA/-kQuTuKRDr0/s1600/obama+dog+1111.jpg
@20 cara de dos ortos podridos
Aug 19th, 2015 - 06:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0This thread is beyond your comprehension - so just go away! Boludo!
It's the UK, what do you expect Mr. Lasso, that they care one bit about international law??? Or that they respect Ecuador as a country?
Aug 19th, 2015 - 01:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those are alien concepts to them.
Within hours they threatened to bulldoze your embassy to get this innocent man. Let's remember whom the UK harbored in the 1950s-- hundreds of genocidal nazis, all while pontificating to others how immoral this was.
These people have no shame, no honor, and no honesty.
@22 Great_coral-aTroll
Aug 19th, 2015 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Within hours they threatened to bulldoze your embassy to get this innocent man.” Typical troll nonsense viz:
1. “Within hours they threatened to bulldoze your embassy”- lies!
2. “This innocent man” - another lie.
3. “Let's remember whom the UK harbored in the 1950s-- hundreds of genocidal nazis, all while pontificating to others how immoral this was.” - Nonsensical lies.
4.“These people have no shame, no honor, and no honesty.” Proof please!
Boludo de mierda.
@22 Trolley
Aug 19th, 2015 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You can change your name every 60 days, when even you must get fed up with the stupid remarks associated to your name, but you can't change your ridiculous ideas nor the size of your (enormous) feet.
And, regarding the nazis, it was Argieland, along with Paraguay and Brazil (to a lesser extent) that harboured many Nazis....not the UK ; Who pays you to post such crap ?
Funny how one person makes a statement with regards to Tobi and Brasshole in the long absence of A-troll the A-sole and low and behold......the A-sole appears.
Aug 19th, 2015 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Surely @22 is paulcedron known to me as cara de dos ortos podridos!
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