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to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over sexual assault allegations. Earlier this month Ecuador granted him asylum.
Assange has denied any wrongdoing and said he fears Sweden will hand him over to the United States, where he could face prosecution over the release of a trove of leaked Iraq and Afghanistan war reports and diplomatic cables. “I believe this will be resolved in six to 12 months,” the 41-year-old Australian said in an interview with Ecuadoran television held inside the embassy and broadcast in dubbed-over Spanish.
“The situation will be resolved either through diplomacy or an unusual event in the world that no one can predict, like a war against Iran, the election in the United States, or the Swedish government dropping the case,” he said. “I expect the last scenario is the most likely one,” he added, according to the Spanish translation.
Earlier this week, Ecuador’s leftist President Rafael Correa said the case could take years to resolve and depended on London and Stockholm. He said there were three ways to resolve the diplomatic impasse: either Britain and Sweden could guarantee that Assange won’t be sent to a third country, Swedish prosecutors could question him in the Ecuadoran embassy, or British authorities could allow him to leave without arresting him. — AFP.