UK May Storm Ecuador's Embassy to Capture Assange

Media continue to `park` themselves outside the Ecuador embassy in London 20 June 2012 as Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange seeks political asylum. EPA/BGNES

Ecuadorian authorities have accused Britain of threatening to enter Ecuador's embassy in London to arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

UK authorities have threatened to storm Ecuador's embassy if it does not hand over Assange, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino has revealed, as cited by the BBC and RIA Novosti.

"Ecuador rejects in the most emphatic terms the explicit threat of the British official communication," Patino said at a press conference in Quito.

"If the measure announced in the British official communication is enacted, it will be interpreted by Ecuador as an unacceptable, unfriendly and hostile act and as an attempt against our sovereignty. It would force us to respond."

Patino pointed out that his country is not a British colony.

The Foreign Minister stated that his government has made a decision on the WikiLeaks founder's request for asylum and will announce it Thursday.

On June 14, Assange lost his last appeal that aimed at blocking his extradition to Sweden to face "sex offence" charges.

The 40-year-old Australian is accused of raping one woman and "sexually molesting and coercing" another in Stockholm in August 2010, but he claims the allegations against him are politically motivated.

Assange's Wikileaks website published material from leaked diplomatic cables embarrassing several governments.

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