Foreign Ministry promised to respond to Romania on the expulsion of a Russian diplomat

Russia will respond to Romania’s decision to expel an employee of the Russian embassy in Bucharest from the country, the actions of the Romanian authorities demonstrate “their utmost loyalty to Western corporate settings,” the report says. comments Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported about the decision to expel the Russian diplomat from the country the day before. They noted that the decision was made due to the incompatibility of the activities of the representative of Russia with the provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. The representative of the embassy left the territory of Romania this week.

According to Zakharova, in Romania “the attack on the Russian diplomatic presence in this country continues,” and the embassy employee was declared persona non grata “as usual, without reason, under far-fetched pretexts.”

“We are talking about a new provocation, implemented according to a scenario that has been repeatedly tested in the vast majority of EU and NATO member countries in recent months. The routine actions of the Romanian authorities are designed to demonstrate their utmost loyalty to Western corporate settings. An independent, nationally oriented line of Bucharest is not visible here, which only aggravates the situation, ”the representative of the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Russian Foreign Ministry intends to “adequately respond to the Romanian demarche.” Zakharova promised to report on the measures taken later.

Romania has previously become one of the EU countries that decided to limit the issuance of visas to Russian citizens. Similar decisions were made by the Baltic countries, Poland, the Czech Republic and Finland.

A week ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro declared a Russian diplomat persona non grata. Zakharova then statedthat this decision has no reasons and logic, and promised to take retaliatory measures.