٠٠:٠١:٢٤Any attempts to establish a dialogue between Western countries with Russia and BRICS is beneficial for helping to bring peace to a troubled world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's father John Shipton said during an interview in Moscow on Sunday.
"Any effort that brings conversation between the West, the BRICS and Russia, even the smallest effort, is a positive move towards peace in a world which teeters on the edge of a nuclear catastrophe. Any effort whatsoever, the smallest one, just to go and have a cup of tea with a Russian if you're from the West," he said.
According to Shipton, his visit to Moscow does not imply any message to the international community. Assange's father plans to visit sites in the Russian capital with significance in the history of literature.
“I'm here in the great city of Moscow, the city of [Leo] Tolstoy and [Mikhail] Bulgakov. Principally, I would like to go this afternoon to the tram stop where the man in the Master and Margarita [Bulgakov's character Mikhail Berlioz] got his head cut off as he fell over in the oil which the devil had arranged an accident for him," Shipton added.
Assange spent five years in Belmarsh prison, fighting extradition to the US, after being taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 25 following a seven-year standoff.
He was wanted in the US on 18 charges related to the release of classified documents involving the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and pled guilty to a single charge of espionage at a hearing in the Northern Mariana islands. He was sentenced to time served in Belmarsh and then allowed to return home.
Any effort for West-Russia-BRICS dialogue is 'positive move towards peace' - Assange's father
Any attempts to establish a dialogue between Western countries with Russia and BRICS is beneficial for helping to bring peace to a troubled world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's father John Shipton said during an interview in Moscow on Sunday.
"Any effort that brings conversation between the West, the BRICS and Russia, even the smallest effort, is a positive move towards peace in a world which teeters on the edge of a nuclear catastrophe. Any effort whatsoever, the smallest one, just to go and have a cup of tea with a Russian if you're from the West," he said.
According to Shipton, his visit to Moscow does not imply any message to the international community. Assange's father plans to visit sites in the Russian capital with significance in the history of literature.
“I'm here in the great city of Moscow, the city of [Leo] Tolstoy and [Mikhail] Bulgakov. Principally, I would like to go this afternoon to the tram stop where the man in the Master and Margarita [Bulgakov's character Mikhail Berlioz] got his head cut off as he fell over in the oil which the devil had arranged an accident for him," Shipton added.
Assange spent five years in Belmarsh prison, fighting extradition to the US, after being taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 25 following a seven-year standoff.
He was wanted in the US on 18 charges related to the release of classified documents involving the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and pled guilty to a single charge of espionage at a hearing in the Northern Mariana islands. He was sentenced to time served in Belmarsh and then allowed to return home.
Any attempts to establish a dialogue between Western countries with Russia and BRICS is beneficial for helping to bring peace to a troubled world, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's father John Shipton said during an interview in Moscow on Sunday.
"Any effort that brings conversation between the West, the BRICS and Russia, even the smallest effort, is a positive move towards peace in a world which teeters on the edge of a nuclear catastrophe. Any effort whatsoever, the smallest one, just to go and have a cup of tea with a Russian if you're from the West," he said.
According to Shipton, his visit to Moscow does not imply any message to the international community. Assange's father plans to visit sites in the Russian capital with significance in the history of literature.
“I'm here in the great city of Moscow, the city of [Leo] Tolstoy and [Mikhail] Bulgakov. Principally, I would like to go this afternoon to the tram stop where the man in the Master and Margarita [Bulgakov's character Mikhail Berlioz] got his head cut off as he fell over in the oil which the devil had arranged an accident for him," Shipton added.
Assange spent five years in Belmarsh prison, fighting extradition to the US, after being taken from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on June 25 following a seven-year standoff.
He was wanted in the US on 18 charges related to the release of classified documents involving the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and pled guilty to a single charge of espionage at a hearing in the Northern Mariana islands. He was sentenced to time served in Belmarsh and then allowed to return home.