The Australian said Thursday that Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has encouraged the Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to do the "decent thing" and confront the sexual assault allegations against him in Sweden.

Julian Assange has said he fears that he would be extradite from Swedento the US, something that Carl Bildt rejects.

"I think the decent thing for him to do is go and answer those questions from the Swedish prosecutor. I really fail to understand why he doesn't do that ... I don't know how long he wants to be held up at in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. It's a rather strange way of spending his life", the Swedish minister told the Australian.

"I think, as someone pointed out, if the US wanted him they had a better possibility by asking the Brits."