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Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The spokesman sarcastically responded to the White House's statement that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken would grab the head of the department Sergei Lavrov “by the button” to discuss a prisoner exchange with him.
She asked. why not on a tie or trousers?
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“It will be necessary to introduce a special course in our Diplomatic Academy” Grabbing the buttons of American diplomacy for lack of a straw,” Zakharova joked.
Lavrov and Blinken participates in the ASIAAN ministerial meeting held in Cambodia. Their meeting is not scheduled. They already discussed the exchange of prisoners by phone a few days ago.
When asked about a possible meeting with Blinkin, the Russian delegation said that at the ASIAN dinner Lavrov spoke with everyone who was not hiding.
The subject of the discussion American athlete Brittany Griner, sentenced to nine years for drug smuggling, will be among the diplomats. She and the American Paul Whelan, who was sentenced for espionage, can be exchanged for Viktor Bout, who is in an American prison.