The OAS is holding a meeting about UK/Assange/embassy over the protest of the meeting by the US:
OAS decides to hold ministerial meeting on Ecuador-UK conflict next week
The OAS Permanent Council called for the meeting Friday at Ecuador‘s request in a vote of 23 in favour and only three - the United States, Canada and Trinidad and Tobago - against. Five other countries abstained.
OAS foreign ministers are to meet on August 24 in Washington “to address the situation” between Ecuador and Britain “regarding the inviolability of the diplomatic premises of Ecuador.” Ecuador has accused Britain of “threatening” to storm its embassy in London.
OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza stressed to the Council that the resolution approved focuses on “the problem posed by the threat or warning made to Ecuador by the possibility of an intervention into its embassy in London”.
“The central issue is not the right of asylum, is the inviolability of embassies,” said Secretary General Insulza, who recalled that last year the United Nations Security Council ruled “very strictly on the absolute immunity that diplomatic missions must have in all the countries of the world”.
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http://en.mercopress.com/2012/08/18/oas-decides-to-hold-ministerial-meeting-on-ecuador-uk-conflict-next-week
Well, now Ecuador has some support. While they are not addressing asylum, the majority of the OAS has coalesced around the British threat to invade Ecuador's embassy. Ecuador is still the one with the most pressure but until the UK stepped in it, they were receiving varied levels of support. Now the OAS has stepped up.
I for one am glad that the issue of inviolability of embassies will be in the forefront. This possible breach of international law is a dangerous move. And the OAS didn't march to the USA's dubious drummer. The US government will probably have eleventy billion operatives in those areas now stirring up even more trouble.
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