Tag: Ecuador

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 06:36 UTC

  Ecuador, boosted by Latam support ready to resume talks with UK on the Assange case

  

  Following the strong unanimous support from Latin America approved by OAS, Ecuador will resume talks with the UK over the future of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange currently holed in at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, announced on Monday the country’s Foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño.

• Tuesday, August 28th 2012 - 06:24 UTC

  OAS mission in Paraguay to follow electoral process and political conditions

  

  The OAS, Organization of American States, cabinet chief and head of political affairs are expected in Paraguay to continue with the organization’s mandate of establishing an electoral committee and helping with the process of strengthening democracy in the country.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  Ecuador receives full support from OAS Ministers in dispute with UK over Assange case

  

  The Foreign Ministers of the Organization of American States (OAS) approved last Friday a resolution supporting the inviolability of diplomatic premises, in accordance with the provisions of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, in the context of the situation created between Ecuador and the United Kingdom.

• Monday, August 27th 2012 - 03:54 UTC

  UK/Ecuador defuse row, pledge commitment to diplomatic solution for Assange dispute

  

  Britain said it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador's London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 05:49 UTC

  Correa recalls the UK non extradition of Pinochet on “humanitarian reasons”

  

  Ecuador's President Rafael Correa said that Britain's failure to extradite former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet more than a decade ago means it has no right to lecture others over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

• Friday, August 24th 2012 - 05:44 UTC

  Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa sounds the bugle

  

  By Sean Burges (*) Is Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa really saying that we cannot trust the judicial systems in Britain and Sweden? By granting Julian Assange asylum, he has implicitly stated the British judicial process is flawed and that Sweden is a slavish servant of the US government.

• Wednesday, August 22nd 2012 - 05:44 UTC

  Double standards in Ecuador: Correa ready to extradite Belarus who faces death threat

  

  Less than a year ago an Ecuadorean judge denied a request to extradite Aliaksandr Barankov to Belarus, the former Soviet bloc nation whose president has been nicknamed “Europe's last dictator”, reports the US and European media.

• Thursday, August 16th 2012 - 01:24 UTC

  Ecuador claims UK prepared to raid London embassy to catch Assange

  

  Ecuador said on Wednesday the British government had threatened to raid its embassy in London if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is not handed over, and that Quito would make its decision on his asylum request on Thursday.

• Friday, August 3rd 2012 - 07:18 UTC

  Ecuador president limits publicity to “friendly” media and raids magazine office

  

  The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) described as “contrary to the principles of freedom of expression and press freedom” an order by the Government of Ecuador to withdraw official advertising from independent news media.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 00:42 UTC

  Ecuador suspends decision on Assange until after the Olympics in London

  

  Ecuador's Foreign minister said on Wednesday there will be no decision until after the Summer Olympics on the political exile request of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.