Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov During a press conference at the UN General Assembly, said that Russians Viktor Booth and Konstantin Yaroshenko, who were in American prisons, were abducted with violation of legislation, but Washington did not listen to this argument. The words of the diplomat leads RIA Novosti.
The minister stressed that Moscow has repeatedly tried to solve the fate of concluded fellow citizens by using the Council of Europe Convention on the transfer of convicts for serving the sentence to their homeland, but predictions or promises for Americans are difficult.
“they categorically do not want to hear anything, they are not listening to the arguments that both of these citizens, like a number of others, they were essentially such a provocative cunning slaughtered in the Western, they were kidnapped simply literally, with violation of legislation : Butt – Thai legislation, there were no all the conditions, Yaroshenko – Liberia legislation, “said Lavrov.
He also added that one person, Roman Seleznev, “Banditsky stuck in a plane” in the Maldives and took away so that no one knew anything.
Earlier of the Russian Foreign Ministry on Human Rights, Democracy and Supreme Law, Department of Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights Gregory Lukyantsev warned that the United States from 2008 leads to hunting for Russian citizens in third countries in order to further extradite them on its territory. The number of such cases reached 50 and will increase.
He stressed that the Russians appear to the American Justice System, and they begin to have significant pressure and impact in an attempt to incline to interact with a consequence and recognition of guilt, which will allow them to soften the punishment that threatens them in the United States.