Russia has introduced quotas for the number of employees of Romanian diplomatic institutions
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As a response, Russia introduces quotas for Romania on the number of personnel of its diplomatic and consular offices in the Russian Federation. About it informed Russian Foreign Ministry.
“On August 3, Chargé d’Affaires of Romania in the Russian Federation K. Ionita was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, where he was handed a note from the ministry on the introduction of quotas for the number of personnel of Romanian diplomatic and consular institutions in Russia,” the message says.
The size of the introduced quotas is not called. The Foreign Ministry stressed that this step is a response to the decision of Bucharest to reduce the staff of the Russian embassy. Against the backdrop of Romania’s consistent unfriendly policy towards Russia, Moscow reserves the right to additional retaliatory measures, the Foreign Ministry added.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania informed Ambassador of Russia on the decision to reduce the staff of the Russian representative office in Bucharest on June 8. Then Bucharest demanded that the staff of the embassy be reduced by 21 diplomatic and 30 technical and administrative posts. In fact, due to the incomplete staffing of the diplomatic mission, it was about the expulsion of 11 diplomats and 29 technical staff, that is, about 40 employees of the embassy.
The Romanian Foreign Ministry noted that in this way the number of employees of the Russian embassy in Bucharest will be equal to the number of the Romanian representative office in Moscow. The Russian Foreign Ministry then promised to give an answer to this decision of the Romanian authorities.
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