The notice said Mr. Assange, 39, was wanted for "sex crimes" on an arrest warrant, brought by the International Office of public prosecution in Gothenburg, Sweden. Interpol is based in Lyon, France. Mr. Assange stronghold was not immediately known.
The development came as several newspapers, including The New York Times, published confidential documents from a mass of some 250,000 diplomatic cables from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Washington, including messages relating to American politics in Iran, Pakistan, Korea and many other places.
The Swedish prosecutor said almost two weeks ago, a court in Stockholm had approved its request for the arrest of Mr Assange facing a hearing on the charges, as Mr Assange has strongly denied.
Marianne New, Director of Stockholm, the public prosecutor's Office, said in a statement at the time she had moved to have Mr Assange extradited to Sweden on suspicion of "rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion."The accusations were first made against Mr Assange after he travelled to Sweden in the middle of August and had a short relationship with two Swedish women, which he has described as consensual. to reach Ms. New Wednesday to clarify the measures taken to ensure Mr. Assange arrest and return to Sweden was kundescenario.
Lawyers acting Mr. Assange requested against the arrest warrant by Sweden's highest court on Tuesday, the Associated Press said in a report, which is also quoted the President Rafael Correa of Ecuador as dismiss an offer residence in his country, made Mr. Assange of a lower official.
According to Interpol's Web site, a red message "is not an international arrest warrant" and it is up to the national jurisdictions to decide how to act on them.
"Interpol's role is to assist the national police forces in identifying or locating persons with their arrest and extradition," said the Web site. "These red notices allow the order to broadcast worldwide with the request that the requested person is arrested with a view to extradition. "
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said the force had received "no intelligence", Mr. Assange was in London, and said that the British police, according to what he described as normal practice in Interpol red notices, was not involved in an active effort to arrest him.
Although officers are not dedicated to find Australian, said spokesman "If that intelligence comes, or we have reason to believe that a person who has a red message out on them is in a specific location, we will find them and hand them as per international standards."
Unconfirmed reports on Wednesday, attributed to WikiLeaks associates, said Australian staying out of sight anywhere outside London. mobile phones of two close of voting rights by Mr. Assange seemed to be extinguished with pre-recorded messages say their owners was outside the United Kingdom.
A Web report by the British Guardian newspaper, which has developed close ties with Australian during those months, the guardian, the New York Times and other publications have preparing stories based on the documents, WikiLeaks, said on Tuesday, Mr. Assange was "in a secret place anywhere outside London with colleagues hackers and WikiLeaks enthusiasts."
An American journalist based in New York, told The New York Times he had had contacts with the aides to Mr. Assange in recent days about a possible interview and had been told to prepare for a meeting with him in the United Kingdom sometime in January.
Other reports suggest that he may have fled the United Kingdom, prior to the Interpol notification to another country, where he was less likely to be arrested, but these can originate with Mr. Assanges own statements in recent weeks suggests that he could have to flee to Moscow or Havana-statements, which left open the possibility that he dramatizing the difficulties he has found in to find a safe haven, rather than the actual outlines a plan.
Nor was it clear exactly how Mr Assange situation had been amended by Interpol in the notice.
John f. Burns reported from London and Alan Cowell from Paris Ravi Somaiya contributed. reporting from London.
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