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Ecuador's foreign minister has blamed Britain over the stalemate surrounding WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange following rekindled attempts to secure his safe exit from Quito's embassy in London.
"On the issue of mediation, I have to say very honestly that it has not been successful because two parties are needed to mediate, [sic]" Maria Fernanda Espinosa, the Ecuadorian foreign minister, told reporters Friday with respect to the Assange case, Agence France-Presse translated.
"Ecuador is willing but the other party is not," she added, referring to Britain, according to Reuters.
On the other hand, from the same source, and as we have already reported:
British authorities argue that Mr. Assange, an Australian, was under house arrest when he entered the embassy and should be apprehended for having breached his bail conditions if and when he exits.
Source: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/23/ecuador-blames-britain-over-julian-assange-impasse/
(Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday February 26 2018, @03:17PM (4 children)
I think this is probably an automatic wrong answer, as it wouldn't surprise me if diplomatic staff and visas have to be issued before a person enters the country. But aside from that, could Ecuador appoint Assange as technical staff to the embassy, giving him diplomatic immunity? If it worked, all they can then do is make him Persona Non Grata and he goes to Ecuador.
For all the deportation ideas above, is there anything that permits a deportee to choose where they exit to? And is there anything that says someone must be deported to their country of origin, or can the deporting nation choose the destination if they're willing to take the diplomatic heat?
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 26 2018, @08:14PM
It doesn't work like iun the movies. The host country has to accept the appointment of someone as a diplomat for diplomatic immunity to kick in, and it is usually done before they even arrive in the country.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Fluffeh on Monday February 26 2018, @08:59PM
They tried this approach but the UK government has to accept the diplomatic staff request (which they did not) so they could not get him out with that immunity - back to the holding pattern basically.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Arik on Tuesday February 27 2018, @05:38AM (1 child)
You think wrongly. It is the unchallenged sovereign right of any state to name their own diplomats, they need no approval from anyone, excepting only the approintment of the head of the mission himself. Only AFTER such an appointment has been made does the receiving state have the option to reply that the choice is *persona non grata.* At which point they are obliged to allow him to leave the country unmolested and in a "reasonable time."
http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/conventions/9_1_1961.pdf (Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations)
Articles 9, 10, and 39 spell this out quite clearly.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Friday March 02 2018, @06:44PM
Thanks for the citation - I knew there had to be something like that existing.
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