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New Red Cross chief says ready to go to Russia for POWs
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GENEVA, 15 December 2022, (TON): The new head of the International Committee of the Red Cross said she was prepared to go to Moscow to discuss access to prisoners of war.
Mirjana Spoljaric, who took the ICRC reins in October, told reporters in Geneva she had personally been “speaking with Russian counterparts.”
She said “I intend to go to Moscow, when the moment is there.”
Speaking at ICRC headquarters just days after returning from Ukraine, she said the organization was intent on gaining access to POWs taken by both sides since Russia launched its full-scale invasion last.
She said “we are in daily conversations at different levels, because access to prisoners of war is an ongoing engagement.”
“There is never a suspension or an end to that.”
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