Communiqu from Ecuadors Ministry of the Exterior, Commerce and Integration on Julian Assange

El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio e Integracin ha informado que el da de hoy el seor Julian Assange de nacionalidad Australiana, con residencia en el Reino Unido, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Commerce and Integration has announced that today Mr Julian Assange of Australian nationality, with residency in the United Kingdom se ha presentado en la sede de la Misin Diplomtica del Ecuador en Londres solicitando la proteccin del Gobierno del Ecuador, argumentando que ante una has presented himself to Ecuadors diplomatic mission in London asking for the protection of the Government of Ecuador, arguing that because of a lamentable declaracin efectiva de abandono recibida por las autoridades de mi pas, Australia, en la cual declaran que no defendern ni an mis garantas mnimas ante ningn sad decision effectively to abandon (me) by the authorities of my country, Australia, in which they will not defend even my smallest rights/guarantees before any gobierno y delegan en la Constitucin de un pas extranjero que aplica la pena de muerte por el delito de espionaje y traicin, y en las garantas que sta ofrece a sus connacionales, ignorando la obligacin de proteger a su ciudadano, que es perseguido polticamente. government and they have delegated (those rights) to the constitution of a foreign country who applies the death penalty for spying and treachery and those rights/guarantees to their own nationals, ignoring the obligation to protect their citizens who are persecuted politically. Dichas declaraciones hacen imposible mi retorno a mi pas de origen y me colocan en un estado de indefensin al ser solicitado para ser interrogado por el Reino de Suecia, Those declarations have made it impossible to return to my home country and have left me hanging in an indefensible state where I can be interrogated by the Kingdom of Sweden, lugar donde sus ms altos funcionarios me han atacado abiertamente, e investigado por delitos polticos en los Estados Unidos de Amrica, un pas donde la pena de muerte por dichas ofensas an est vigente. a place where the most high offices have attacked me openly and the United States (where) I have been for investigated political crimes and is a country in which the death penalty is enforced for such offenses El Gobierno del Ecuador se encuentra evaluando el pedido del seor Julian Assange y cualquier decisin que adopte sobre el mismo tendr en cuenta el respeto a las normas y principios de derecho internacional, as como la tradicional poltica del Ecuador de precautelar los derechos humanos.

The Government of Ecuador is currently evaluating a request from Mr Julian Assange and any decision thats adopted will respect the principals of international norms and human rights as is the tradition of Ecuador to protect human rights. La Cancillera ha comunicado oficialmente acerca de esta situacin al Foreign and Commonwealth Office a travs de la Embajada del Ecuador en el Reino Unido y de la Representacin Diplomtica britnica en Quito. The Ministry has officially communicated this situation to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office through the Embassy of Ecuador in the United Kingdom and Britains Diplomatic representative in Quito.