Ecuador warns Britain over Assange

the world could be violated,” Correa said in an interview with public channel Ecuador TV.
The move “would be terrible, a disastrous precedent,” said Correa, echoing what many legal experts have been saying of Britain’s threat last week to disregard diplomatic convention to seize Assange. Ecuador has said it received “an explicit and written threat” from the British government to do just that shortly after Ecuador announced it was granting Assange political asylum. Britain has refused to provide Assange safe passage to travel to Quito.
Correa said the British threat to storm the embassy was still valid, as “Britain has not retracted” its statement or “offered apologies,” and therefore there was still a “risk” that it could happen, though he considered it unlikely due to international pressure. Should the British carry out their threat, Ecuador would respond firmly, he said.
“We would take action with the law on our side, with respect for the principles of international law, but with absolute firmness in the face of such an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty,” he said.
Correa said he expected foreign ministers from the Organisation of American States (OAS), who are to meet tomorrow in Washington to discuss the Quito-London standoff, to express their “clear and overwhelming” rejection of Britain’s threat. Correa also did not rule out taking the case to the United Nations Security Council or other international bodies to “denounce the British threat.” — Xinhua.