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Andean Group - June 2014 (ISSN 1741-4466)

POLITICS & DIPLOMACY: Assange beds down

Two years and counting. That is how long the founder of the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London. In a joint press videoconference with Assange in Quito and London, Ecuador’s foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, announced on 19 June that his government’s support for Assange would continue for “the whole of the mandate” of President Rafael Correa which concludes in 2017 (and presumably beyond if Correa succeeds in amending the constitution to allow for indefinite re-election).

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