US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will likely try to talk to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting in Cambodia, White House spokesman John Kirby said Thursday, after American basketball player Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia. for drug trafficking.
“I have no doubt that if he has the opportunity to approach Mr. (Serhiy) Lavrov, he will do it. And if he doesn’t do that, if it doesn’t happen organically, I’m sure that Minister Blinken will contact him and they will talk,” Kirby told MSNBC, as quoted by Agerpres.
When the verdict was announced in Moscow, Blinken and Lavrov were attending an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gala dinner in Cambodia.
Blinken has already released a statement saying Brittney Griner’s nine-year sentence “compounds the injustice of her wrongful imprisonment.”
“Nothing in today’s decision changes our belief that Brittney Griner is being illegally detained, and we will continue to work to bring Brittney and another American, Paul Whelan, also illegally detained, home,” said Anthony Blinken.
Source: Hot News RO
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