Britain warns diplomatic status of Ecuador’s Embassy cld be revoked

Britain has yet to prove “IT HAS GENUINE RESPECT” for “Freedom of Speech” and the rights possessed by Ecuador Embassy – as this is considered to be “sovereign territory” of a foreign country, on British soil.

When we go back to the beginning of the story, it is absolutely “implausible” how UNFAIR both SWEDEN (to be in the first place) and Britain have acted so far in regards to ASSANGE issue.

This journalist (a true contemporary hero to many) has exposed all the “MISDEEDS” of superpowers, using his technical skills and the contacts he has built in time.

The whole world including many working for the British government have learned how disgraceful the picture is – to be much different to what superpowers have been trying to reflect to the world, for ages. People have clearly learned that beyond rhetorics of “democracy and freedom etc..” the main (and actually only) target is to “get control of the energy resources” in the MENA region and the Middle East in specific.

It is a real tragedy and SHAME for the Swedish government that this country has surrendered to the wishes of superpowers to neutralize Assange and even eliminate him, by using an inconceivable method such as charging Mr. Assange with sleeping two women withouth using condoms etc…

Now when one reads those lines, one cannot decide if to laugh or cry due to such expressions..

Yes, we believe the Swedish state should really be feel sorry for being used to put this plot in action…

The second part of this shameful act has been put on stage in UK and the authority has also surrendered to the big brother’s wishes and done everything necessary so far, to deliver ASSANGE to USA – to punish him in the severest way possible obviously, for having put USA in a difficult situation in front of  billions and having damaged the “GREAT” image of the superpower…

And the third part of the play is to be exhibited by Britain again, as they have given the message they an assault at the Ecuador embassy could be considered using their right based on a specific regulation the reason being the embassy is abusing the rights it holds in a foreign soil etc..

Provided this is true (reported by AP), we find this very “disappointing” for the conceerned authority and also unfair to their own public as it is an attempt to deny the right of  “Freedom of Speech” and “FREEDOM OF INFORMATION”, in specific..

The reason is;  Assange has made it possible – for British citizens as well – to learn what kind of implausible relations and acts the superpowers have been involved in all this time (together with many other countries certainly), on the contrary to “the picture of democracy and freeedom” they have always tried to paint in the eyes of the world.

Now, when ASSANGE has chosen to duck  into Ecuador’s London embassy to seek political asylum the British government has started to threaten to assault the embassy if Assange is not handed over.

Quote: London had warned Ecuador in writing earlier in the day that a 1987 British law permits it to revoke the diplomatic status of a building if the foreign power occupying it “ceases to use land for the purposes of its mission or exclusively for the purposes of a consular post.” Its Foreign Office said later in statement that it is Britain’s “obligation to extradite Mr. Assange.”

Now the question is; “What is Britain trying to do for God’s sake? Is Britain determined to do everything possible (and impossible) to make sure they do not fail to please the superpower?”

Therefore, based on above explanation we condemn the British government for their conduct on concerned issue and trying to intimidate the Ecuador authorities (based on below inserted piece of news).

Editor
16.08.2012

NEWS ABOUT CONCERNED ISSUE

In the two months since Julian Assange ducked into Ecuador’s London embassy to seek political asylum, President Rafael Correa has been consistently deferential to Britain while insisting on his right to protect what he sees as a free speech advocate facing persecution.

Asked earlier this week if he felt solidarity with the WikiLeaks founder, Ecuador’s leftist president told a TV interviewer “of course, but we also feel solidarity for England and for English and international law.”

The decision on Assange’s petition, which his government said it would announce Thursday, would come only after careful scrutiny of the law and consultations with the governments involved, Correa insisted. And after London’s Olympics fest was over.

On Wednesday, the cordiality ended.

Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino accused Britain of threatening to “assault our embassy” if Assange was not handed over.

A storming of Ecuador’s embassy would be interpreted as “hostile and intolerable and, as well, an attempt on our sovereignty which would oblige us to respond with the greatest diplomatic force,” he said.

London had warned Ecuador in writing earlier in the day that a 1987 British law permits it to revoke the diplomatic status of a building if the foreign power occupying it “ceases to use land for the purposes of its mission or exclusively for the purposes of a consular post.” Its Foreign Office said later in statement that it is Britain’s “obligation to extradite Mr. Assange.”

The former Australian hacker, who incensed U.S. government officials by publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables and Iraq and Afghan war dispatches in 2010, took refuge in the embassy on June 19 to avoid extradition to Sweden. He faces questioning there for alleged sexual misconduct and had exhausted all appeals after a 17-month legal battle.

As news broke of the British warning on Wednesday, police were seen reinforcing Scotland Yard’s presence at the embassy, which occupies a first-floor apartment in a district near the Harrods department store.

A small group of Assange supporters later gathered outside.In statement, WikiLeaks accused Britain of trying to bully Ecuador into denying Assange asylum.”A threat of this nature is a hostile and extreme act, which is not proportionate to the circumstances, and an unprecedented assault on the rights of asylum seekers worldwide,” it said.

As Thursday dawned in London, there was no sign police might try to enter the embassy.British officials have vowed not to grant Assange safe passage out of their country. They say they will arrest him the moment he steps foot outside the embassy.But they had not publicly suggested they might strip the embassy of its diplomatic inviolability.

The Associated Press found no record of that law ever being used to justify forcible entry into an embassy. Under the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomatic posts are considered the territory of the foreign nation.

Asked by the AP about Patino’s characterization of Britain’s warning, a Foreign Office official said via email that the letter “was not a threat” and was intended to clarify “all aspects of British law that Ecuador should be aware of.”The official would not be identified by name, citing policy.The Foreign Office statement that mentioned the government’s invoking of the 1987 Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act also stated: “We are still committed to reaching a mutually acceptable solution.”Patino said the missive including the veiled threat was delivered to his ministry in writing and verbally to its ambassador in London on Wednesday.

The Foreign Office statement did not elaborate on Britain’s intentions if Assange were to be granted asylum by Ecuador.

Assange says the Swedish charges against him are trumped up, and his supporters say they believe the U.S. has secretly indicted him and would extradite him from Sweden.

Correa has said Assange could face the death penalty in the U.S. and for that reason he considers the asylum request a question of political persecution.

A U.S. and European-trained economist who won the presidency in November 2006 in his first bid for elected office, Correa has called Assange a beacon of free speech but has used criminal libel law to try to silence opposition media at home.

WikiLeaks has strengthened him politically against the U.S., whose influence he has sought to diminish in Latin America as he deepens commercial ties with countries including China, which now buys most of Ecuador’s oil, and pushes a populist agenda.

One cable published by WikiLeaks prompted Correa to expel a U.S. ambassador in 2010 for alleging a former Ecuadorean police chief was corrupt and suggesting Correa had looked the other way.

Analysts in Ecuador expressed doubts Wednesday that Britain would raid the embassy.

Professor Julio Echeverria of Quito’s FLACSO university said Britain “has a long established tradition in Europe of respecting diplomatic missions,” which under international law are considered sovereign territory.A former Ecuadorean ambassador to London, Mauricio Gandara, said he believed that if asylum were granted “Mr. Assange could be in the embassy for a long time.”Associated Press writers Raphael Satter in London and Frank Bajak in Lima, Peru, contributed to this report.

16.08.2012
SOURCE: AP

By GONZALO SOLANO
QUITO, Ecuador