Ecuador has given Sweden permission to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside their London Embassy - where the 40-year-old is still holed up.
The website founder has spent more than five weeks inside the Knightsbridge embassy, hoping to receive political asylum in Ecuador.
Police are stationed outside the Embassy gates and Assange will be arrested if he attempts to leave.
Julian Assange outside the High Court earlier this year
He is wanted for questioning by Sweden over sex crime allegations, but has voiced fears that he will be extradited to the US from Sweden over his website's 2010 release of secret embassy cables.
Sources at the embassy told Press Association that an approach was made to the authorities in Sweden on Wednesday, offering them the chance to interview Assange about the allegations.
Ecuador plans to ask the United States if they have plans to seek the Australian's extradition, or if a Grand Jury is being set up to investigate WikiLeaks' publication of the information.
The source said: "Julian Assange has repeatedly offered himself to the Swedish authorities to be interviewed. We have made it clear that Ecuador would be willing to facilitate an interview. The prosecutor is welcome to come here.
"It is our duty to act under international law and the standards of South American principles," said the source.
"We care very much about human rights, but at the same time we have bilateral relations to consider.
Ecuador was "deeply concerned" about the "evil" that could befall Assange, including any prospect of a life-long or even death sentence if he was convicted in the States, the source said.
"We believe the countries want to resolve the problem in the best way possible. There might be a way out in which all the parties will be satisfied, including Mr Assange. That is what we are seeking."
The embassy has imposed no deadline, and Mr Assange can stay in the building indefinitely.
On Wednesday, a High Court judge ruled that classified US cables from WikiLeaks can be used to cross examine senior UK government officials, an unprecedented step.
The judge ruled the move was necessary to resolve "fairly and justly" a claim launched against the Government by exiled residents of the Chagos Islands.