Two of the diplomats were working at the Russian Embassy in Vienna and two at the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN, the Austrian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The embassy personnel have been “declared personae non grate under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations,” the ministry said.
The other two “committed acts incompatible with the Headquarter Agreements” and will also have to leave Austria, it added.
The four diplomats have until the end of Feb. 8 to exit the country, the ministry said.
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Moscow will retaliate against Austria's decision to declare four Russian diplomats as personae non gratae, the Russian Foreign Ministry said." Russia will give an appropriate response," the ministry told TASS on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteEarlier in the day, the Austrian Foreign Ministry said that four Russian diplomats had been declared persona non grata. The ministry claims that two diplomats from the Russian embassy had allegedly "committed actions incompatible with their diplomatic status." Also, two diplomats from Russia’s permanent UN mission "took actions incompatible with the Headquarters Agreement," the ministry aregued. They were ordered to leave Austria by February 8.