London (UK), 12 Mar (LaPresse) – The British government announced it had expelled a Russian diplomat and his spouse in response to the expulsion of two British embassy staff members in Moscow earlier this week. The Foreign Office said in a statement that it had summoned the Russian ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, following an ‘increasingly aggressive and co-ordinated campaign of harassment against British diplomats’ which it claimed was an attempt to close the British embassy in Moscow. Kelin was told that the UK ‘will not stand for the intimidation of British embassy staff and their families’. Consequently, the Foreign Office has taken ‘immediate reciprocal action, revoking the accreditation of a Russian diplomat and his spouse’. The Ministry added that it is clear that Russia is ‘actively seeking to push the British embassy in Moscow towards closure and has no regard for the dangerous escalating impact of this’.
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