'“Surely, the president (Rafael Correa) and his staff will make the best decision,” state-run El Ciudadano website quoted Christine Assange as saying.

Assange has been hiding at the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for over a month to avoid his extradition to Sweden, where he faces a rape trial he calls ‘politically motivated’. Assange’s whistleblowing site WikiLeaks made an enemy of the US government in 2010, when it leaked hundreds of thousands of American diplomatic cables.