The
United States of America has been flexing muscles with their European
counterparts as both countries sanction each other in a reprisal
fashion.
Russian President, Vladimir Putin
Russia has declared 35 American diplomats persona non grata, in a response to President Barack Obama’s expulsion of Russian diplomats for ‘malicious’ meddling in US election via cyber hacking.
The TASS news agency said the American diplomats expelled include
31 personnel of the embassy in Moscow and four of the consulate general
in St. Petersburg.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, made the declaration on Friday, TASS reported. “We, of course, cannot leave unanswered the insults of the kind, reciprocity is the law of diplomacy and foreign relations,” Lavrov said.
“Thus, the Russian Foreign Ministry and officials of other
authorities have presented to the Russian president suggestions
regarding announcing persona non grata 31 personnel of the US Embassy in
Moscow and four diplomats from the Consulate General in St.
Petersburg.” Washington’s accusations that the Russian state was
behind attempts to meddle in the US presidential election are
groundless, Lavrov said.
“The outgoing US administration of Barack Obama accusing Russia
of all mortal sins, trying to blame us for the failure of its foreign
policy initiatives, among other things, has put forward additional
accusations without any grounds whatsoever that the Russian state was
behind attempts to meddle in the US election campaign, which led to the
defeat of the democratic candidate,” Lavrov said.
When News Breaks Out, We Break In. (The 2014 Bloggies Finalist)
No comments:
Post a Comment