Bucharest's threats to land Russian govt delegation's plane deserve harsh response

The reaction to the Romanian authorities' threats to land forcefully plane of the Russian delegation returning from Transdniestria using destroyers should be very harsh, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. "Romania said today via Prime Minister [Victor] Ponta that if the prime minister, not the president, were in charge, he would use a destroyer to land our plane in Romania.

There is nothing to talk about with them after this," Rogozin told reporters. The Russian Foreign Ministry "will prepare and think through the reaction," Rogozin said. "It is one thing to introduce sanctions regarding people so that they do not come and not to issue visas but to land forcefully a plane with several members of the Russian government on board using military aviation is beyond jokes and various half-serious conversations. The reaction should be most harsh," Rogozin said.

The situation was discussed on Monday morning with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Romanian ambassador to Russia, and reported to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Rogozin said. 

• "The issue is not physical safety of a certain person - the issue is that they put under sanctions the right of Russian citizens, including those in the country's authorities and representatives of the Russian government, to fly transit over air space of these countries," he said.

As to the incident with the search of the government delegation's plane in Chisinau, this was "an intrusion on board, where the ambassador and consular employees have not been permitted," Rogozin said.
[voiceofrussia.com]
12/5/14
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