Someone's leaving Ecuador's embassy ... but it's not Julian Assange
Ana Alban, Ecuador's ambassador to Britain, recalled to Quito over her failure to bring an end to the WikiLeaks founder's asylum saga
Kevin Rawlinson
Sunday 09 June 2013
... Ms Alban, whose relations with the Government are said to have soured since Mr Assange was given asylum, is to be replaced by an ambassador charged with ending the long-running drama. A Quito source told The Independent on Sunday that a request for agrément (the approval of a new diplomatic representative) has been sent.
Ecuador is understood to be desperate to negotiate a way for Mr Assange to quit its embassy amicably and is growing frustrated with the lack of progress. Quito sources said they believe Britain is happy to leave Mr Assange marooned.
At a meeting last Tuesday between Ms Alban and Hugo Swire, the Foreign Office minister responsible for Latin America, Ms Alban is said to have asked: "What are we going to do about the stone in the shoe?"
Mr Swire's response, according to a source who was in the room, was: "Not my stone, not my shoe" ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ios-exclusive-someones-leaving-ecuadors-embassy-but-its-not-julian-assange-8650773.html
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