UK, Ecuador fail to break Assange deadlock UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and his Ecuadoran counterpart Ricardo Patino have failed to resolve the deadlock over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in talks, officials said. The Foreign Office said on Monday there was "no breakthrough" on what to do about the Australian, who has been living at the Ecuadoran embassy in London for the past year in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden to face questioning for alleged sex crimes.