Earlier in the day, the Italian Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador in Rome Sergey Razov to announce the expulsion of 30 Russian diplomats, declaring them personae non gratae.
"Russia will respond accordingly," Zakharova said.
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The Italian Foreign Ministry has summoned Russian Ambassador in Rome Sergey Razov to announce the expulsion of 30 Russian diplomats, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday.
ReplyDelete"This measure, taken by agreement with other European and Atlantic partners, was necessary for reasons related to our national security amid the current crisis resulting from Russia's unreasonable aggression against Ukraine," Di Maio said, as quoted by the Nova news agency.
Di Maio added that Italian Foreign Ministry Secretary General Ettore Sequi informed Razov of the expulsion of the diplomats, declaring them personae non gratae by Italy.
The Italian Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador to Rome Sergey Razov earlier on Tuesday to inform him of a decision to expel 30 Russian diplomats. Denmark, in turn, announced the expulsion of 15 Russian diplomatic workers. The Swedish Foreign Ministry moved to expel three Russian diplomats. Russian Ambassador to Paris Alexey Meshkov slammed the French Foreign Ministry’s decision to declare Russian diplomats personae non grata as an unfriendly action.
ReplyDeleteThe German Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador to Berlin Sergey Nechayev on Monday to inform him that 40 workers of Russian diplomatic and consular facilities would have to leave the country. On March 29, several EU countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland, announced that they were expelling Russian diplomats amid Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. Earlier, a number of EU member states, among them Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, also expelled Russian diplomats.