{"id":13789,"date":"2012-08-28T06:28:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T10:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=13789"},"modified":"2026-04-22T09:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:37:59","slug":"ecuador-britain-retracts-threats-to-attack-embassy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2012\/08\/ecuador-britain-retracts-threats-to-attack-embassy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecuador: Britain Retracts Threats to Attack Embassy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20in_britain_assan_1119182g.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13791\" title=\"20IN_BRITAIN_ASSAN_1119182g\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/20in_britain_assan_1119182g.jpg?resize=490%2C332\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color:#000000;\">British Foreign Office Says Committed to Dialogue<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>by Jason Ditz<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Ecuador President Rafael Correa is reporting that Britain has formally withdrawn its threat to attack the Ecuadorean Embassy in London,<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-08-25\/business\/sns-rt-wikileaks-assangeecuador-tvl2e8jp2gb-20120825_1_julian-assange-wikileaks-founder-quito\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">saying<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">that his government \u201cconsider this unfortunate incident over.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Britain\u2019s Foreign Office had threatened to invade the embassy earlier this month over the<\/span> <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/08\/15\/us-wikileaks-assange-ecuador-idUSBRE87E16N20120815\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">granting<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">of asylum for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Though the Vienna Convention of 1961 forbids nations from attacking one another\u2019s embassies, British law claims the right to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The Ecuadorean government says they have received an additional communication from the Foreign Office over the weekend, saying that there is \u201cno threat to enter the embassy.\u201d Ecaudor had previously called an emergency meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS) to respond to the threat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The British Foreign Office is now denying that the threat was ever made in the first place, and says that its second letter wa<\/span>s <span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-19385458\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">meant<\/span><\/a><\/span> <span style=\"color:#000000;\">to \u201ccalm things down.\u201d They say that they are now committed to dialogue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2012\/08\/26\/ecuador-britain-retracts-threats-to-attack-embassy\/\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">Fuente<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Foreign Office Says Committed to Dialogue by Jason Ditz Ecuador President Rafael Correa is reporting that Britain has formally withdrawn its threat to attack..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,43,187],"tags":[193,197,287],"class_list":["post-13789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-media-culture","category-science-tech","tag-ecuador","tag-imperialism","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20IN_BRITAIN_ASSAN_1119182g_13789_876d6.jpg?fit=630%2C428&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39495,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13789\/revisions\/39495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}