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Blinken and Russia’s Lavrov have ‘frank’ discussion about prisoners
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WASHINGTON, 31 July 2022, (TON): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said “he has held a telephone conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.”
He pressed the Kremlin to accept the ‘substantial proposal’ that Washington has put forward to secure the release of two Americans detained in Russia.
In their first such conversation since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, the two top diplomats looked to stick to their existing positions, according to the readout of the call from Blinken and the Russian foreign ministry.
He said “we had a frank and direct conversation.”
Blinken told a news conference at the State Department “I pressed the Kremlin to accept the substantial proposal that we put forth on the release of Paul Whelan and Brittney Griner.”
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