The British are threatening to storm the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and pick up Assange. On Thursday, the answer to Assange's application for political asylum.According to Ecuador's Foreign Minister, the decision is Asylum decision will be announced at 14 Swedish time, according to Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino. But the British government has threatened to make a raid on Ecuador's embassy in London unless Assange surrendered
- Today we received a threat from the UK, a clear written threat that they may storm our embassy in London on Ecuador refuses to hand over Assange said Patino told reporters in Quito.
- Let's make it perfectly clear. We are not a British colony. The colonial period is over, said Patino.
- If the British are doing seriousness of the threat, it will be seen as a hostile and unacceptable action and an attack on our sovereignty.
A spokesman for the British Foreign Office confirmed that the UK retains the right to storm the Ecuadorian embassy to pick up Assange.
- According to British law, we can one-week notice to get into the premises. The Embassy will no longer have diplomatic protection, he said.
- No such decision has yet been taken. We will not do so overnight. We stress that we want to reach a diplomatic solution
If Assange was granted political asylum in Ecuador, the question remains how he intends to escape from the embassy and the airport.
According to the Swedish Foreign Ministry, he could escape in a ambassadbil, but analysts are skeptical.
- Ecuador has no right to take him out of the country, and I can not see any practical possibility of how to achieve it if they fail to deceive both the British police and the authorities at the airport, says Pål Wrange, Associate Professor of Law at Stockholm University.
- It is clearly an illegal act under UK law to bring a suspected criminal. Diplomats can not be prosecuted or detained, but they can be stopped if they commit a crime, says Wrange.
Assange has been at the embassy since the British Supreme Court ruled that he be extradited to Sweden where he is interrogated in connection with allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Assange fear that Sweden should leave him to the United States.already made in Quito.
- Let's make it perfectly clear. We are not a British colony. The colonial period is over, said Patino.
- If the British are doing seriousness of the threat, it will be seen as a hostile and unacceptable action and an attack on our sovereignty.
A spokesman for the British Foreign Office confirmed that the UK retains the right to storm the Ecuadorian embassy to pick up Assange.
- According to British law, we can one-week notice to get into the premises. The Embassy will no longer have diplomatic protection, he said.
- No such decision has yet been taken. We will not do so overnight. We stress that we want to reach a diplomatic solution
If Assange was granted political asylum in Ecuador, the question remains how he intends to escape from the embassy and the airport.
According to the Swedish Foreign Ministry, he could escape in a ambassadbil, but analysts are skeptical.
- Ecuador has no right to take him out of the country, and I can not see any practical possibility of how to achieve it if they fail to deceive both the British police and the authorities at the airport, says Pål Wrange, Associate Professor of Law at Stockholm University.
- It is clearly an illegal act under UK law to bring a suspected criminal. Diplomats can not be prosecuted or detained, but they can be stopped if they commit a crime, says Wrange.
Assange has been at the embassy since the British Supreme Court ruled that he be extradited to Sweden where he is interrogated in connection with allegations of rape and sexual assault.
Assange fear that Sweden should leave him to the United States.already made in Quito.
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