Ecuador said that Sweden can send a prosecutor to its embassy in Britain to interrogate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Ecuador said that Sweden can send a prosecutor to its embassy in Britain to interrogate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

President Rafael Correa offered this proposal as a “simple solution” for the case of Assange who has been for months in Quito’s embassy in London.

"This problem has a simple solution ... We propose that a Swedish prosecutor come to interrogate him at Ecuador's embassy in London," Rafael Correa said in an interview with Chilean radio station Cooperativa.

"It's perfectly legal,” Correa, who is on a visit to Chile said, adding that precedents for such a move exist, noting that "this happened on other occasions."

If Stockholm does not want to send a prosecutor to London, it should provide Assange with a guarantee that he will not be extradited to a third country, Correa said further.

Assange sought asylum at the Ecuadoran embassy in the British capital in mid June in a bid to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faces questioning over alleged rape and sexual assault.

Quito gave the 41-year-old Australian asylum in August but Britain has refused to grant him safe passage out of the country, and he remains holed up in the embassy, placing Ecuador in a diplomatic stalemate with Britain.

Assange denies the allegations against him, and claims he could eventually be extradited by Sweden to the United States for prosecution over the  WikiLeaks website's publication of hundreds of thousands of classified US documents.