MOSCOW. Feb 18 (Interfax) - The Russian Foreign Ministry is convinced that Russian and American doctors must make a joint statement for Russian citizen Konstantin Yaroshenko's condition at a U.S. prison.
"We hope our specialists will have no obstacles in conducting an exhaustive examination of the Russian citizen, preferably jointly with American doctors, and prescribe the therapy he needs," the Russian Foreign Ministry's Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law Konstantin Dolgov said in a commentary on Monday.
Dolgov said that, "Yaroshenko, a Russia citizen unfairly sentenced to a long prison term in the United States, is in a condition that arouses serious concern."
"Due to the joint efforts by Russian diplomats and American defense attorney Tarasov, who confirmed after seeing Yaroshenko that he is in need of urgent medical treatment, the U.S. authorities gave the go-ahead to an urgent medical examination," Dolgov said.
He said that Russian Foreign Ministry and Consulate General in New York are in talks with the U.S. departments of state and justice to organize Yaroshenko's meeting with Russian officials, including the Foreign Ministry's rights commissioner and senior diplomats of the Russian embassy in Washington and Consulate General in New York.
"We confirm that we will not put up with a situation where Yaroshenko's life is in danger through the fault of the prison administration and with the federal authorities distancing themselves from this problem. We hope that the U.S. will be guided by humanitarian considerations in the first place and observe the corresponding international obligations," Dolgov said.