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In reply to the discussion: Vivienne Westwood uses London Fashion Week to declare support for Assange [View all]AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)19. About this "lack of international support"...
you may want to read the actual reports on this:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oas-urges-britain-ecuador-resolve-assange-row-210333857.html
Ecuador had accused Britain of threatening to raid its embassy in violation of diplomatic conventions to extract Assange and had sought support from the OAS in objecting to such a possibility.
However, due to objections from the United States, Canada and others, including Panama and Trinidad and Tobago, all of whom said the OAS was not the proper venue to discuss a bilateral dispute, references to the alleged threat were removed from a draft resolution offered by Ecuador and strongly backed by leftist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua.
However, due to objections from the United States, Canada and others, including Panama and Trinidad and Tobago, all of whom said the OAS was not the proper venue to discuss a bilateral dispute, references to the alleged threat were removed from a draft resolution offered by Ecuador and strongly backed by leftist allies Venezuela and Nicaragua.
Just because the US, Canada, Panama and Tridad and Tobago wanted to water down the OAS resolution, doesn't mean that much of the rest of Latin America wasn't outraged, and the OAS went ahead with a resolution anyway. Ecuador had considerable support in the Western Hemisphere.
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