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The Latest: Sweden says UN statement has no legal effect

A police motorcycle passes outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is staying, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest by British police if a U.N. working group investigating his claims decides that the three years he has spent inside the Ecuadorean Embassy doesn't amount to illegal detention.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
A police motorcycle passes outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is staying, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest by British police if a U.N. working group investigating his claims decides that the three years he has spent inside the Ecuadorean Embassy doesn't amount to illegal detention.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) A police motorcycle passes outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is staying, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will accept arrest by British police if a U.N. working group investigating his claims decides that the three years he has spent inside the Ecuadorean Embassy doesn't amount to illegal detention.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

By Associated Press 2 min read

GENEVA (AP) – The Latest on the U.N. panel’s determination that Julian Assange has been arbitrarily detained (all times local):

10:15 a.m.

Britain’s Foreign Office has rejected the United Nations panel’s finding that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is a victim of arbitrary detention.

Officials said in a statement Friday morning that Britain will formally contest the working group’s opinion issued earlier in Geneva.

The statement says Britain is “deeply frustrated” by the Assange situation.