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Ecuador president calls Julian Assange a ‘problem’
QUITO, Jan 22, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – The president of Ecuador Lenin Moreno on
Sunday described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as an “inherited problem”
that has created “more than a nuisance” for his government.
“We hope to have a positive result in the short term,” Moreno said in an
interview with television networks.
Ecuador granted citizenship to Assange earlier this month in an
unsuccessful attempt to provide him with diplomatic immunity and usher him
out of its London embassy without the threat of arrest by Britain.
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