'We're working hard. We're coming up with different ways to do this. We will not fail this mission,' hostage affairs envoy Roger Carstens says.
WASHINGTON, DC, USA – Biden administration officials will meet early Monday, December 12, to discuss next steps in securing the release of former US Marine Paul Whelan, who was jailed in Russia in 2020 on spying charges, President Joe Biden’s top hostage negotiator said on Sunday.
Biden on Thursday announced a prisoner swap involving American basketball star Brittney Griner, but was unable to secure the release of Whelan. Biden said Russia was treating Whelan’s case differently, but vowed never to give up. In a separate interview on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’, Carstens said the administration could soon use new powers included in a executive order signed by Biden this summer that authorized sanctions and visa bans against people responsible for wrongfully detaining American citizens.
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