Showing posts with label President Rafael Correa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Rafael Correa. Show all posts
Friday, November 01, 2013
Correa: Current World Order Not Simply Unfair, It's Immoral (RT Exclusive)
Saturday, October 05, 2013
Nazi Rhetoric? Ecuador Slams Obama's Exceptionalism Stance
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
'Surveillance Can't Be Tolerated' - Correa Exclusively to RT
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Talk to Al Jazeera: Rafael Correa: 'Our Right to Grant Asylum'
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Moskau/Quito - Ecuadors Präsident Rafael Correa hat die Verantwortung über das weitere Schicksal des flüchtigen früheren US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiters Edward Snowden Russland zugewiesen. Um Snowdens Asylantrag bearbeiten zu können, müsse er sich auf ecuadorianischem Boden befinden, sagte Correa am Samstagabend dem Privatsender Oromar. "Derzeit aber liegt die Lösung, sein weiteres Reiseziel, in den Händen der russischen Behörden."
Nach Meinung von Experten könnte ecuadorianischer Boden auch die Botschaft des südamerikanischen Landes in Moskau sein.
Der Präsident bekräftigte, sein Land könne nichts für die derzeitige Situation. Snowden stehe in Kontakt mit WikiLeaks-Gründer Julian Assange, der ihm zu dem Asylantrag geraten habe. » | fab/AFP/dpa | Sonntag, 30. Juni 2013
Saturday, June 29, 2013
BBC: The US vice-president has talked to Ecuador's leader by phone about fugitive ex-CIA analyst Edward Snowden's bid for asylum.
Joe Biden held talks with President Rafael Correa on Friday, the two countries confirmed.
According to Mr Correa, Mr Biden asked him to reject the request but Washington gave no details.
In a new development, a German magazine says a document leaked by Mr Snowden shows the US bugged EU offices.
Spiegel magazine says a September 2010 "top secret" document of the US National Security Agency outlines how the agency bugged offices and spied on EU internal computer networks in Washington and at the UN. The document explicitly referred to the EU as a "target", the magazine reports.
Mr Snowden is believed to be staying at a Moscow airport, having arrived nearly a week ago from Hong Kong, where he had been staying since he revealed details of top secret US surveillance programmes.
The US has charged him with theft of government property, unauthorised communication of national defence information and wilful communication of classified communications intelligence.
Each charge carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence. » | Saturday, June 29, 2013
The plan to spirit the surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden to sanctuary in Latin America appeared to be unravelling on Friday, amid tension between Ecuador's government and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.
President Rafael Correa halted an effort to help Snowden leave Russia amid concern Assange was usurping the role of the Ecuadoran government, according to leaked diplomatic correspondence published on Friday.
Amid signs Quito was cooling with Snowden and irritated with Assange, Correa declared invalid a temporary travel document which could have helped extract Snowden from his reported location in Moscow.
Correa declared that the safe conduct pass issued by Ecuador's London consul – in collaboration with Assange – was unauthorised, after other Ecuadorean diplomats privately said the WikiLeaks founder could be perceived as "running the show".
According to the correspondence, which was obtained by the Spanish-language broadcaster Univision and shared with the Wall Street Journal, divisions over Assange have roiled Ecuador's government. » | Rory Carroll in Quito and Amanda Holpuch in New York | Friday, June 28, 2013
Friday, June 28, 2013
Tensions continue to simmer between Washington and Quito over the Edward Snowden affair. After the United States threatened to eliminate special trade benefits with Ecuador, the South American country unilaterally moved on Thursday to terminate a trade benefits deal with the country. A short time later, the US said it would also review trade advantages given to Ecuador.
For Washington, the latest developments are a further setback in the diplomatic nightmare surrounding whistleblower Snowden, who has been on the run since leaking documents about collossal American and British Internet spying programs to Britain'sGuardian newspaper. Washington's threatening gestures come at an opportune time for politicians in Quito.
In Ecuador, few believe that a trade deal in place with the US since 1991 will be extended. Numerous conflicts already existed between the two countries even before the Snowden affair. » | Johannes Schneider in Quito, Ecuador | Friday, June 28, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
LA PRESSE: Le Royaume-Uni a réaffirmé sa détermination lundi, au lendemain de la réélection du président équatorien Rafael Correa, à trouver une «solution diplomatique pour sécuriser l'extradition vers la Suède» du fondateur de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, réfugié à l'ambassade d'Équateur à Londres.
«Le Royaume-Uni est déterminé à trouver une solution diplomatique avec le gouvernement équatorien pour sécuriser l'extradition de Julian Assange vers la Suède», a déclaré le ministre britannique des Affaires étrangères, William Hague, dans un communiqué.
«Je félicite le peuple équatorien et le président Correa pour cette élection qui a été un succès, et je salue la participation élevée et le climat pacifique le jour du scrutin», a-t-il ajouté.
«Le Royaume-Uni et l'Équateur ont une relation bilatérale de grande valeur et nous sommes impatients de travailler davantage avec le gouvernement équatorien sur une variété de sujets», a-t-il encore dit. » | Agence France-Presse | Londres | lundi 18 février 2013
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Ecuador's president Rafael Correa has agreed to give Julian Assangeasylum, officials within Ecuador's government have said.
The WikiLeaks founder has been holed up at Ecuador's London embassy since 19 June, when he officially requested political asylum.
"Ecuador will grant asylum to Julian Assange," said an official in the Ecuadorean capital Quito, who is familiar with the government discussions.
On Monday, Correa told state-run ECTV that he would decide this week whether to grant asylum to Assange. Correa said a large amount of material about international law had to be examined to make a responsible informed decision.
Ecuador's foreign minister Ricardo Patiño indicated that the president would reveal his answer once the Olympic Games were over. But it remains unclear if giving Assange asylum will allow him to leave Britain and fly to Ecuador, or amounts to little more than a symbolic gesture. At the moment he faces the prospect of arrest as soon as he leaves the embassy for breaching his bail conditions.
"For Mr Assange to leave England, he should have a safe pass from the British [government]. Will that be possible? That's an issue we have to take into account," Patino told Reuters on Tuesday. » | Irene Caselli in Quito | Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Saturday, August 04, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange met with Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa on Wednesday to discuss the fate of her son holed up at the country's embassy in Britain.
Assange, 41, is seeking asylum in the South American nation to avoid his extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexual assault.
"The important thing is for Julian to be assured that Ecuador is considering with great responsibility" his request, the president told Assange's mother, Christine Assange, during their hour-long meeting.
Mr Correa said his country has a "great humanist tradition and respect for human rights."
He added that he respects Britain, Sweden, and the people of the United States, and that the matter bears consultation, but that, ultimately, "Ecuador does not negotiate over its sovereignty."
Meanwhile, Assange told AFP that based on "a chronological history of the Swedish investigations and based on the fact, there is absolutely no doubt" the charges against her son are part of a political persecution against him. » | Source: agencies | Thursday, August 02, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
THE GUARDIAN: Rafael Correa says officials will 'discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries' before decision is madeEcuador's president has acknowledged the diplomatic and political minefield created by Julian Assange's application for asylum, and indicated that a decision on the WikiLeaks founder's appeal is likely to take longer than first thought.
Speaking to reporters in Quito, Rafael Correa said: "We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom."
Once a decision is made, Correa said, "we can talk about safe passage and such things".The WikiLeaks founder requested asylum at the country's embassy in London on Tuesday, citing the UN declaration on human rights. He is on bail after losing the last of his appeals against extradition to Sweden to face allegations of sexual offences, but insists such a move could place him at greater risk of possible future prosecution by the United States over the WikiLeaks cable releases in 2010.
Ecuador's deputy foreign minister, Marco Albuja, said on Wednesday that the country would make a decision within 24 hours, but Correa said: "He [Assange] presented his reasons. We are going to verify them. We will take the time necessary. Ecuador is a country which defends the right to life. We have to see whether there is a threat to Julian Assange's life." » | Esther Addley | Friday, June 22, 2012
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
THE GUARDIAN: Assange's representatives say he was forced to seek asylum because he fears a 'political prosecution' in the USJulian Assange sought political asylum because he believed he would not "see the light of day for 40 years" if he was extradited to Sweden, according to his New York-based lawyer.
Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents the WikiLeaks founder in the US, said Assange and his legal team considered it highly likely that he would face an onward extradition to the US if he were sent to Sweden. "The concrete reality [is] that he was facing a political prosecution in the US, he was facing the death penalty or certainly life in jail. Faced with that, he had extremely limited choices."
Barring a last-ditch appeal to the European court of human rights, Assange could have expected to be extradited imminently, after the supreme court rejected the last of his attempts to resist removal to Sweden over accusations of sex assaults made by two women in August 2010.
The Assange team believes the US is likely to seek to prosecute him on espionage charges, which carries a potential death penalty, and that his chances of resisting any such extradition warrant would be more difficult in Sweden, where he would not receive bail during investigations into the alleged sex crimes and where his lawyers believe political and public opposition to a US extradition claim would be weaker. » | Esther Addley | Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Police will arrest Julian Assange even if he is granted asylum with one legal expert claiming his only way out of the country is becoming Ecuador's representative to the UN.The WikiLeaks founder has spent the past two nights holed up in the South American country’s London embassy, in an attempt to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over alleged sex crimes.
He will discover later today if Ecuador plans to grant him asylum.
But it is widely accepted he will still face arrest the minute he walks out of the Knightsbridge building, where police are waiting, as he has breached his bail conditions. He is meant to remain at a bail address in Tunbridge Wells between 10pm and 8am every night while his extradition appeals continue.
Mr Assange, a 40 year-old Australian, cannot be given diplomatic immunity by Ecuador as conferred on other embassy staff, because the Foreign Office would not approve the application.
And even if he were made an Ecuadorian citizen or granted asylum, he would still be liable to be arrested on departure from the embassy.
Speaking on the steps this morning, a policeman told reporters: “I am not aware of any agreements which would allow him safe passage out of the UK.”
Scotland Yard confirmed: “A successful asylum bid does not change the fact that he has breached his bail conditions.” » | Martin Beckford, Home Affairs editor | Thursday, June 21, 2012
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Frieden, Wahrheit, Gerechtigkeit? WikiLeaks-Gründer Assange preist Ecuador - ein Land, in dem Journalisten wegen Präsidentenbeleidigung zu drei Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt werden. Ecuadors Präsident zeigt sich beeindruckt von diesen Worten, man prüfe Assanges Asylantrag ausführlich.Hamburg - Ecuador will den Asylantrag von WikiLeaks-Gründer Julian Assange ausführlich prüfen. "Wir werden uns die Zeit nehmen, die nötig ist, weil es sich um eine sehr ernste Angelegenheit handelt", sagte der ecuadorianische Präsident Rafael Correa in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem venezuelanischen Sender Telesur. Assange war am Dienstag in die Botschaft Ecuadors in London geflüchtet. Präsident Correa sagte nun: "Wir werden ihm so lange Asyl gewähren, wie es nötig ist." » | lis/AFP/AP/dapd/Reuters | Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2012
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LE POINT: L'Équateur va étudier la demande d'asile de Julian Assange : Le président Rafael Correa veut vérifier que le fondateur australien de WikiLeaks a eu droit à un procès équitable. » | Source AFP | jeudi 21 juin 2012
THE GUARDIAN: Ecuador has moved to the left under socialist president Rafael Correa, worsening its relations with the United StatesBritain's diplomatic relations with Ecuador have historically been low-key but cordial. However, the 2007 election of a socialist president Rafael Correa, led to a sharp change of direction in the Latin American state's foreign policy, away from the US and its regional allies and towards a radical bloc led by Venezuela.
In 2009, Correa closed a US military base, renounced Ecuador's national debt and joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (Alba) created by the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez as a counterweight to western influence in Latin America, alongside Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia. Relations with neighbouring Colombia nosedived in 2008 after a Colombian incursion into Ecuadorean territory, saying it had come under fire from left-wing Farc guerillas operating there.
Ecuador has also given diplomatic support to Iran in its standoff with the west over its nuclear programme. Correa visited Tehran in 2008 and announced the opening of embassies in each other's countries, while building up defence cooperation with Iran. Iran has also provided loans for the construction of hydroelectric power plants. In 2010, the US government declared Ecuador as being in violation of international regulations on money-laundering and financing terrorism, further worsening ties with Washington. » | Julian Borger, diplomatic editor | Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
During Assange's interview with President Correa for his series The World Tomorrow, the two men clearly struck up a bond. Was it during this interview that Assange first got the idea of claiming asylum from a sympathetic Ecuador?
Calling him "my dear Julian", the immediate rapport between Assange and President Correa is obvious. "Are you having fun with this interview Julian? Me too", Correa laughs. Discussion swirls around their mutual mistrust of the USA. "The last thing I'd be is anti-American, however I will call a spade a spade", asserts Correa, as he details his controversial and furious counter-offensive against US interests in Ecuador: after Wikileaks published damning US cables, Correa threw the US ambassador out of the country. "Wikileaks has made us stronger", the president insists. As the colourful interview draws to a close, Correa offers these heartfelt words of comfort to Assange: "Welcome to the club of the persecuted!"
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: When Wikileaks founder Julian Assange met Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa: Julian Assange, who has taken refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, recently interviewed the country's president Rafael Correa for his television show on Russia Today, it has emerged. » | Wednesday, June 20, 2012
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