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Richardson adds to diplomatic wins with journalist’s release

FILE - Then Democratic presidential hopeful New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson addresses an audience during a campaign stop on the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, N.H., Jan. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File) FILE - Bill Richardson, then Governor of New Mexico and a Democratic presidential candidate, left, shakes hands with new United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon prior to their meeting, Feb. 7, 2007 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Osamu Honda, File) FILE - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former President Bill Clinton watch the Super Bowl at the Governor's Mansion in Santa Fe, N.M, Feb. 3, 2008. (AP Photo/The Santa Fe New Mexican, Rebecca Craig) FILE - Then U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson votes to extend the UN's oil-for-food program, under which the Iraqis can sell limited amounts of oil to buy food and medicine, Dec. 4, 1997 at the United Nations in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File) FILE - In this Sept. 27, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama is greeted by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, as he steps off Air Force One at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) FILE - In this photo issued by the Myanmar Military True News Information Team, former U.S. ambassador and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (left) meets with State Administration Council Chairman, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Nov. 2, 2021. (Myanmar Military True News Information Team via AP, File) Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters after a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, has been freed with the assistance of Richardson, who helped negotiate the release. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) American journalist Danny Fenster speaks at a news conference at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, after arriving in the United States following a six month detention in Myanmar. Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, has been freed with the assistance of former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who helped negotiate the release. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, left, embraces American journalist Danny Fenster following a news conference at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, has been freed with the assistance of Richardson, who helped negotiate the release. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)