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Kremlin responds to NATO: “Deportations of diplomats undermine hopes for dialogue”

NATO’s decision to reduce the number of members of Russia’s diplomatic mission almost entirely Kremlin stressing that it undermines his hopes that relations could be normalized and that dialogue with the US-led alliance could continue.

THE expulsion from NATO of eight members of the Russian mission in the North Atlantic Alliance, which a NATO official said on Wednesday (6/10) was “undeclared Russian intelligence officers”, was the latest blow to East-West relations already at a low level since the Cold War.

As Russian President Dmitry Peshkov’s spokesman put it, “there is an obvious inconsistency in the statements of his representatives. NATO for their desire to normalize relations with our country and their real actions “.

Preskov even added, as broadcast by the Athens News Agency, citing Reuters and TASS, that “these actions, of course, do not allow us to have illusions about the possibilities of normalizing relations, the resumption of dialogue with NATO.” Rather, these prospects are completely undermined in practice. “

Moscow mission to NATO headquarters in Brussels to be halved

The British television network Sky News reported yesterday that Moscow’s mission to NATO headquarters in Brussels would be cut in half “in response to suspected malicious Russian activities, including assassinations and espionage”.

Reuters was unable to confirm the information cited by Sky News about the reduction of the Russian delegation. However, TASS reports that the Alliance later confirmed this information.

In 2018, in its aftermath poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripalin the English city of Salisbury, NATO withdrew the agreement on the appointment of seven officials accredited to the Russian mission in the Alliance and rejected pending accreditation requests for three more.

The North Atlantic Council, the NATO assembly, also reduced the maximum number of Russian missions by 10 out of 30.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grusko yesterday blamed NATO for the bipartisanship. A friendly Kremlin lawmaker assured Moscow that it would retaliate, though not necessarily.

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