Posted on 11/30/2010 8:38:33 AM PST by lbryce
Ecuador has offered Julian Assange, the founder of the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, residency in the country.
Deputy Foreign Minister Kintto Lucas said his country's government wanted to invite Mr Assange to Ecuador to give him the opportunity to speak publicly.
He said Ecuador was concerned about some of the alleged American activities revealed by Wikileaks.
Earlier this year Sweden refused an application from Mr Assange, who is Australian, for residency there.
"We are open to giving him residency in Ecuador, without any problem and without any conditions," Mr Lucas said.
"We are going to try and invite him to Ecuador to freely present, not only via the internet, but also through different public forums, the information and documentation that he has," he said.
Mr Lucas added: "We think it would be important not only to converse with him but also to listen to him."
Wikileaks says it has more than 1,600 cables that originated from the US embassy in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito, the contents of which have not yet been disclosed.
Mr Lucas said Ecuador was "very concerned" by information revealed by Wikileaks linking US diplomats with spying on friendly governments.
He said the offer to Mr Assange would not affect relations between Ecuador's left-leaning government and the US
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Tiny and nutzo leftist.
Might be a setup. “Come to Ecuador! Oh, sorry, looks like the safety was off on this machine gun. Brr-r-r—r—r-r—r-r- Oh so sad, hope you get better.”
We have plenty of their citizens here in violation of our immigration laws.When are they going to take them back?
Ecuador? My Lord! Surely a peaceful, painless death is preferable to life in that Third World Hell Hole. Anyway, he will be quite lonely there: all the Ecuadorans are in Chicago.
We should make the same offer. Leavenworth, Kansas, is nice this time of year.
Paging Mossad - Please pickup the white courtesy telephone.
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