[lbo-talk] UK threatens to storm Ecuadorean Embassy, kidnap Assange

[Wendy Lyon]

On 17 August 2012 22:25, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The British could declare him persona non grata and order his
>> appointment terminated.
>
> They could order an appointment to the UN terminated?

That wasn't a response to your question about the UN, it was a
response to your question about them giving him a diplomatic passport.


>> He'd only have immunity in relation to his official UN duties.
>
> But that doesn't seem like much of a hurdle as long as there's any London
> connection to be found.

It would be pretty hard to show that someone was acting in the course
of their UN duties by allegedly committing an offence two years before
they were ever appointed to the UN.