Mexico's President says he will ask US President Joe Biden to address the case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange when the two men meet in July.
Mexico's President says he will ask US President Joe Biden to address WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's case when the two men meet in July.He is wanted on 18 counts, including a spying charge, relating to WikiLeaks' release of confidential records
Mr Lopez Obrador is set to meet US President Joe Biden in July, where he says he will address the issue Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador raised Mr Assange's case at a regular news conference on Tuesday, saying his country would open its doors to the Australian if he was released.Mr Assange's wife Stella Moris vowed to fight using every possible legal avenue.
"I'm going to ask President Biden to address this issue … humanism must prevail," Mr Lopez Obrador said.Mr Lopez Obrador is set to meet his US counterpart in July. He skipped the recent US-hosted Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles to protest against the White House's exclusion of the Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan governments from the event.