Ecuador admits failure of Assange efforts: FM

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Ecuador's efforts to negotiate the release of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from its London embassy have failed, the South American country's foreign minister admitted Friday.

"On the issue of mediation, I have to say very honestly that it has not been successful because two parties are needed to mediate.

Ecuador is willing, by not necessarily the other party," said Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa, referring to Britain.

But she said her country would "continue looking for mechanisms, ways" to try to solve the standoff.

Assange last week lost his legal battle to overturn an English arrest warrant against him, and with it his hopes of freely leaving the embassy, where he has been holed up since 2012.

A judge at a court in London rejected the argument of Assange's lawyers that upholding an arrest warrant was no longer in the public interest, saying "arrest is a proportionate response."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ecuador-admits-failure-of-assange-efforts-fm/ar-BBJvlne?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

[struggle4progress]

1. "Help! Help! We have a crazy man in our embassy and he won't leave!"

[brooklynite]

3. I they really wanted to, they could just have him trip and fall out of his window...

[struggle4progress]

4. If they want, they can bounce him and all his junk out the front door and onto the sidewalk

Of course, somebody would lose face back at home if they did that, since they declared he's an Ecuadorian citizen, after their effort to declare him an Ecuadorian diplomat fell flat

[Takket]

2. even if they can't arrest him, can they set up some kind of EM field that disrupts his internet

connection? so we don't have to hear from this asshole anymore?