Officials from Sweden will be allowed to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuador embassy in London, AFP reports.
In a statement released Wednesday, Ecuador’s foreign ministry said the meeting would take place in “coming weeks.”
Assange is wanted for questioning over rape allegations in Sweden in 2010, which he denies. The Australian sought asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012, fearing the U.K. would return him to Sweden, which would in turn extradite him to the U.S. to face trial over Wikileaks’ publication of classified documents.
According to AFP, Assange on Wednesday appealed a Swedish court’s decision to maintain a European arrest warrant over the rape allegation.
The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention earlier this year said in a non-binding decision that Assange’s confinement in the Ecuadoran embassy amounted to arbitrary detention by Sweden and Britain, a claim both countries dispute.