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flamingdem

(39,308 posts)
Sat Jun 29, 2013, 03:42 PM Jun 2013

'Tensions don't exist': WikiLeaks refutes media reports about 'Ecuadorean disarray'

http://rt.com/news/assange-ecuador-tensions-snowden-430/

** whole article needs to be read to see Assange's role, but here is the Correa document part

The disclosed correspondence has also revealed that Ecuadorean officials apparently were aware of a controversial temporary travel document, the so-called, “safe pass” that Fidel Narvaez, consul at the embassy in London, issued for Snowden and that President Rafael Correa said was “unauthorized”.
The President said that even if such a document existed, "the person who issued it will be totally without authority and [the document] would have no validity."

Nevertheless, the Univision Network claims to have established that the Ecuadorian diplomat Narvaez issued the travel document at the President’s request and forwarded it to Presidential legal adviser, Alexis Mera.

"Dear Alexis, I am responding to your request," The WSJ cited the note from an address bearing Narvaez's name. The letter also allegedly included a copy of an Ecuadorian “safe pass” in Snowden’s name.

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President Rafael Correa responding to the leak by the newspapers has accused the media of spying on Ecuadorean officials. He also stressed that the corrupted media power is the worst weapon that mankind has invented.
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