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| U.S. senator says Snowden case risks Ecuador trade status |
| 2013-06-27 |
| [REUTERS] The head of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday he would seek to end preferential trade access for Ecuadorean goods if the South American nation offers political asylum to runaway former spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. Senator Robert Menendez, chairman of the foreign relations panel, warned in a statement that accepting Snowden "would severely jeopardize" preferential trade access the United States provides to Ecuador under two programs that expire next month. "Our government will not reward countries for bad behavior," Menendez said. Snowden was in hiding on Wednesday at an airport in Moscow awaiting a ruling on his request for asylum from the South American country's leftist government. The United States wants him extradited to face charges that he stole and leaked details of secret U.S. government surveillance programs. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 He shouldn't have been allowed into Russia without either 1)a visa or 2)confirmed flight reservation to go on from there. Them's the Russkie rules. Which somehow seem to have gotten waived. |
| Posted by: Muggsey Mussolini 2013-06-27 12:22 |
| #3 The rooskies will let him go when they're done pumping him. |
| Posted by: Spot 2013-06-27 08:04 |
| #2 Pure Bull, Snowden is still in Russia, at the Airport, and can't get a visa, (No Passport, No Visa) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-06-27 05:26 |
| #1 "Our government will not reward countries for bad behavior," Menendez said. Really? |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-06-27 01:48 |