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Guillaume Long - Ecuadorian Foreign Minister

22/06/2016 GMT

Ecuadorian Foreign Minister - Guillaume Long

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Can Ecuador claim to uphold transparency and freedom of expression?

Zeinab Badawi talks to Guillaume Long, the newly-appointed foreign minister of Ecuador. It is four years since Julian Assange took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault claims, which he denies. Mr Assange says that he could end up being sent to the United States and put on trial for espionage, on the grounds of the publication of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents on his website, WikiLeaks. But can Ecuador claim to uphold transparency and freedom of expression, when its own government stands accused of systematically violating press freedoms at home?

(Photo: Ecuadorean Foreign Affairs Ministers Guillaume Long at a press conference in Quito, 2016. Credit: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP)

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