DELHI. March 2 (Interfax) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the called for Washington's proposal on the repatriation of U.S. citizen Paul Whelan, convicted in Russia, to be accepted when he talked to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in India.
"I've also raised the wrongful detention of Paul Whelan as I have on many previous occasions. The United States put forward a serious proposal. Moscow should accept it," Blinken told a press conference in Delhi on Thursday.
Whelan, who is a citizen of the United States, Ireland, and Canada, and also a British national, was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to 16 years in prison for espionage on June 15, 2020. The American is now serving his term in high-security Penal Colony 17 in Mordovia.
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