The U.S.’s top hostage negotiator pledged to find a way to secure the release of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich and another American, Paul Whelan
“The Russians owe us a consular visit and we have yet to have consular access to Mr. Gershkovich, and the Russians owe that by international law and by consular convention,” said Mr. Carstens on CNN.of Putin’s Russia and a country at war
“We are acting in this matter in accordance with our laws, taking into account, of course, the relevant provisions of the consular convention, but we are also guided by existing practice in this area,” Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Wednesday, according to the state news agency TASS. “This issue is under consideration.”
in order to be able to negotiate for the release of Russian prisoners held in the U.S. And he focused on a recent string of successes in securing the release of 26 Americans, and pledged to bring Messrs. Gershkovich and Whelan home.“We’ll find a way and a path to bring both Paul Whelan and Evan home,” he said on MSNBC.
Mr. Carstens said he had just spoken with Mr. Whelan, by phone on Monday, and they spoke mostly about the case of Mr. Gershkovich, he said. He also said on CNN that Mr. Whelan sings the national anthem every day from his prison cell. Moscow has dismissed the State Department’s designation of Mr. Gershkovich as being wrongfully detained as inconsequential.
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