{"id":1576342,"date":"2022-07-28T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576342"},"modified":"2022-07-28T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T14:04:59","slug":"russia-says-there-is-no-deal-on-swapping-griner-for-jailed-arms-trafficker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-says-there-is-no-deal-on-swapping-griner-for-jailed-arms-trafficker\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Says There Is No Deal on Swapping Griner for Jailed Arms Trafficker"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-says-there-is-no-deal-on-swapping-griner-for-jailed-arms-trafficker%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1576342&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LONDON\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-russia\">Russia<\/a> said on Thursday that negotiations with the United States on exchanging prisoners are ongoing but there is no deal to swap detained U.S. basketball star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-brittney-griner\">Brittney Griner<\/a> for jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout.<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-dmitry-peskov\">Dmitry Peskov<\/a> told reporters that \u201cso far there are no agreements in this area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova indicated that talks on prisoner exchanges had been going on for some time but without producing a result.<\/p>\n<p>They were responding to comments by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that Washington had made Moscow a \u201cserious offer\u201d to secure the release of Griner and former U.S. marine Paul Whelan, also detained in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue of the mutual exchange of Russian and American citizens in detention on the territory of the two countries was at one time discussed by the presidents of Russia and the United States,\u201d Zakharova said, apparently referring to conversations pre-dating Russia\u2019s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey gave instructions to the relevant authorized structures to carry out negotiations. These are being conducted by the competent departments. A concrete result has not yet been achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations would need to take into account the interests of both sides, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken said on Wednesday he would discuss the Griner and Whelan cases with his Russian counterpart in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen discussing such topics, you don\u2019t conduct information attacks,\u201d Peskov said in a comment that appeared to reflect irritation with Washington\u2019s very public diplomacy on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>A Russian lawyer for Whelan has previously said he believed Moscow wanted Bout to be part of a swap for Whelan.<\/p>\n<p>Griner, detained at Moscow\u2019s Sheremetyevo airport in February with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil in her luggage, was in the courtroom on Wednesday in the latest hearing of her trial on drug charges. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON\u2014Russia said on Thursday that negotiations with the United States on exchanging prisoners are ongoing but there is no deal to swap detained U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner for jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that \u201cso far there are no agreements in this area.\u201d Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}