Russia announces expulsion of 15 Dutch diplomats in response to Hague action – Russia |
Moscow. 19 April. Interfax – Russia declared 15 employees of the Dutch diplomatic mission in Russia persona non grata as a response declaration, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
In a statement published on the agency’s website, the Dutch Ambassador Hilles Arnaud Beshoor Pluh “was given a note from the ministry, in which, as a response to the unfriendly actions of The Hague, 14 employees of the Dutch Embassy in Moscow and 1 employee of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in St. Petersburg were declared persons not a grata.
Earlier in April, the Dutch authorities announced the expulsion of 18 employees of the Russian embassy in The Hague, the Russian trade mission in Amsterdam, and the Russian permanent mission to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
In addition, on Tuesday, Estonian Ambassador Mark Michilsen was at the Russian Foreign Ministry, a woman “was demanded by a strong protest in connection with the provocative rule of the kingdom about the expulsion of the 21st representative of Russian foreign missions in Belgium.” “Listening to the note of the ministry on declaring persona non grata of the embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Moscow, in respect of which restrictions were imposed on the transfer of the Russian Federation until the end of the day on May 3,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Ambassador of Luxembourg Georges Faber was also summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, “the Russian side protested strongly in connection with the unjustified supreme Luxembourgish authority to declare the Russian embassy in Luxembourg persona non grata.” Russian-Luxembourg relations. It was emphasized that the Russian side has the right to take retaliatory measures,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
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