BRUSSELS –
It is Russia still did not have the US at the end of last year, 35 Russian diplomats, the country expanded and two Russian centers closed. If the centers are not quickly returned are going to Moscow to ’retaliation’, threatened the Russian minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday.
Lavrov was in Brussels for a meeting with EU buitenlandchef Federica Mogherini. After he brought the dispute with the US under the attention. “We hope that the United States, a country that justice is promoting its international obligations to respect,” said the Russian minister.
Washington sent the diplomats away and closed the centers in response to harassment against U.s. diplomats in Moscow, as it was called at the time. The punishment was also associated with the alleged Russian interference in the American presidential elections.