A right of diplomatic asylum is not established in international law.

Diplomatic asylum is also very different from granting someone residence in a country as a political refugee.

Colonel Diaz has requested and was promised diplomatic asylum in Spain but did not rush to leave.

The Vatican diplomats also noted that the United States had itself made use of diplomatic asylum to help resolve civil conflicts aboard.

The international community condemned the United Kingdom's threat and supported Ecuador's position regarding the grant of diplomatic asylum.

Redgrave is a celebrity supporter of the British Red Cross where she is particularly interested in working with refugees and diplomatic asylum seekers.

Next day, he announced that the Government of Ecuador had decided to grant diplomatic Asylum to the creator of WikiLeaks.

However, he considered that there was no difference in principle between Assange seeking diplomatic asylum in the Ecuador embassy and absconding to that country.

Since 19 June 2012, he has been inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has since been granted diplomatic asylum.

In addition, the United States minister in Santiago gave diplomatic asylum to various insurgent leaders during the war and to Balmaceda's supporters after the war.

Assange was granted diplomatic asylum on 16 August 2012, with Foreign Minister Patiño stating that Assange's fears of political persecution were "legitimate".

Peru said today that it had granted diplomatic asylum to a Noriega associate who is wanted by the United States and to 11 others who took refuge in the Peruvian Ambassador's residence in Panama City.

The Colombian government announced on June 1 that it had granted diplomatic asylum to the former President (in 1985-1990), Alan García Pérez, the secretary-general of Peru's American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA).

On May 1 it had been reported that the Colombian government was willing to talk with the guerrillas, after three representatives of the two groups within the CNGSB (the FARC and the ELN - see p. 38001) had occupied the Venezuelan embassy in Bogotá seeking diplomatic asylum.

The Rev. Robert Graham, a Jesuit and author of diplomatic histories for the Vatican Secretariat of State, said: "Diplomatic asylum is a matter of common practice in Latin America, and it is accepted and acknowledged by all the nations there and by the United States as well.

A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Jose Torres, said Gonzalo Gonzalez, identified by the Panamanian authorities as a former captain and chief of security for Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the ousted dictator now in America custody, has taken refuge in the residence and been granted diplomatic asylum by Peru.