Thank you very much for your questions. I will answer the first question, particularly as regards discretion with respect to the situation of political prisoners.
I think it's important to divide your question in two.
Part of it has to do with technical negotiations, such as those to organize a prisoner swap. It has to be discreet, of course, or else it won't work. For example, every time journalists ask me if any work is under way for more political prisoner exchanges or to release Russian political prisoners, I always say that I have no comments to make. In that sense, absolutely, discretion is needed, otherwise nothing will happen.
As I already said when I answered your colleague's question, in my case, for example, I had absolutely no idea that anything was happening with the prisoner exchange. It was exactly the same thing for all my other colleagues who were part of the same exchange; I asked them about that afterwards. It's interesting though that people in other countries knew. The Americans and the Germans knew that there would be an exchange. We Russians didn't know anything. So there was complete discretion, and that's how it should be done, definitely.
As to the other part of your question, in terms of campaigns and advocacy in support of political prisoners, by definition, that can only be done publicly. You can't advocate for a political prisoner in secret. It just doesn't work. That's what I was talking about when I said that this part must absolutely be public. In addition, it can help improve the conditions of political prisoners. As we've already discussed with Anita Vandenbeld, knowing that they're not forgotten gives them tremendous moral support.
