Moscow will react “adequately” to Bucharest’s decision to declare an employee of the Russian embassy persona non grata, commented the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, according to statements published on Saturday by the official TASS news agency, writes Agerpres.
“Of course, we will respond adequately to Romania’s approach and will additionally inform about the measures taken,” the spokeswoman of Russian diplomacy said.
Zakharova emphasized that Romania declared the employee of the Russian embassy persona non grata “without any reason and under inflated pretexts.”
According to the official representative of the Russian diplomatic mission, Bucharest’s actions are “a new challenge implemented according to the scenario repeatedly tested in the vast majority of EU and NATO countries in recent months.”
“The stereotypical actions of the Romanian authorities are designed to demonstrate maximum loyalty to the Western corporate environment,” Zakharova emphasized. “Here there is no independent Bucharest line with a national orientation, which only worsens the situation,” she added, quoted by TASS and RIA Novosti.
A day earlier, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania reported that the authorities decided to expel the Russian diplomat from the country. The representative of the embassy, as the ministry notes, “left the country this week.”
On April 5, the Romanian authorities declared ten employees of the Russian embassy in Bucharest to be persons non grata. As Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry noted at the time, Moscow considered this step as part of the campaign by the US and its allies to discredit the Russian “special operation” in Ukraine. In response to Romania’s actions, Moscow on May 13 declared ten employees of this country’s embassy in Russia persona non grata, TASS reminds.
On February 24, Russia launched an unfounded and unprovoked military aggression against Ukraine. Moscow declares that this is a “special military operation to de-Nazify” the neighboring country and protect the Russian-speaking community in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reminds
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