US ruled out the possibility of exchange Savchenko Bout and Yaroshenko – RBC

convicted in Russia a citizen of Ukraine Hope Savchenko, March 2016

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Washington is not considering the possibility of sharing convicted in Russia Ukrainian pilots Hope Savchenko on serving sentences in the United States Russians

«We do not consider this possibility,” – RBC spokesman said the US Embassy in Moscow Will Stevens. Earlier that Moscow conducts consultations on exchange Savchenko group of Russians, including those sentenced to various terms in the United States, the agency “Interfax” referring to informed sources. Parties negotiating agency has not called.

Arrested in 2010 in Liberia pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko was later extradited to the United States, where he was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of participating in a criminal conspiracy to smuggle into the United States cocaine . $ 100 million Viktor Bout, in turn, was extradited to the US from Thailand, and received a sentence of 25 years for smuggling weapons – a formal accusation sounded like a conspiracy to kill American citizens, as a weapon, which traded Booth, meant the rebels of the Revolutionary armed forces of Colombia (FARC), recognized as a terrorist organization by Washington.

Russia considers the charges against both far-fetched and demands their release. “They did not kill US citizens, and the intention for which they were condemned American justice, have not been adequately proven,” – said recently the Commissioner for Human Rights Ministry of Foreign Affairs Russia, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov. In his speech, he criticized the US and EU diplomats, who demanded the release Savchenko, whose guilt in the murder of Russian citizens, he stressed, “is proved on the basis of objective evidence and data.” Ukrainian aviator was recognized March 22 guilty of the murder of two journalists of VGTRK and illegally crossing the border and sentenced to 22 years in prison.

Those responsible for the arrest and conviction of Bout and Yaroshenko, were compiled in April 2013 Moscow Sanctions list as “complicit in human rights and freedoms of Russian citizens abroad.” In April 2015 Russia’s Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the abduction Yaroshenko US intelligence agencies and Liberia. The Russian authorities have also repeatedly pointed out that the two prisoners have health problems, but do not get decent medical care.

«US committed to fulfill its obligations under international and national law of a decent content of detainees and prisoners, including the provision of adequate health care. We also provide consular access to foreigners deprived of their liberty in accordance with the Vienna Convention “, – said RBC Stevens.