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The Vienna convention, if I'm not mistaken.
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Which part? All I can find is the part where we're not allowed to go into their embassy. Nothing about us revoking their ability to have an embassy or our ability to revoke it, we just have to allow them safe passage out of the country if we do.
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I suppose they could revoke a person's diplomatic status, or break diplomatic relations altogether. But revoking the diplomatic status of the premises in order to get at someone residing there would be unprecedented.
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Well how many times has this exact circumstance occurred? We have done it before to get squatters out of an embassy, exact same law too. So that we didn't break the convention.
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But the question then becomes how badly we want to arrest that person, and the message it sends out to other countries. It's not going to look good. How do you think the UK would react if another country (say Ecuador), would use similar local laws to arrest someone we'd granted asylum to. I think we'd kick up a mighty storm, and rightly so.
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Which is why we would rather not do it. However we have abided by the law here, he is wanted for charges of sexual assault in Sweden and we're obliged to honor the extradition treaty. So as soon as he steps out we'll arrest him.
We haven't actually started these proceedings because it would take a very long time, it's messy and nobody wants to do it. We're just reminding them that we can.
The Asylum claim is rubbish anyway, being investigated for sexual offensives is not a reason is claim asylum.
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Oh good! Assange is going to issue a statement outside the embassy. Get ready! We'll nab him then!