Moscow plans to send about 30 of us diplomats and the seizure of many properties of the USA in Russia. About it the newspaper “Izvestia” said a source in the Russian foreign Ministry.
Such measures as on Smolensk square ready to go after Washington’s decision not to return belonging to the Russian dipvedomstva property in the United States, which in December 2016, were seized. Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald trump are unable to resolve this issue in a personal meeting on the sidelines of the summit of “Big twenty” in Hamburg.
The source lamented that the United States has not offered ways out of the crisis, and Russia has to meet the mirror, despite reluctance to do so. “There is a preliminary agreement on holding the meeting in Saint-Petersburg Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Ryabkov and first Deputy Secretary of state Thomas Shannon. If there is a compromise is not found, we will have to go to such measures”, — said the interlocutor of the newspaper.
On June 28 the official representative of Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that Moscow is preparing measures in response to the seizure of diplomatic property in the United States. According to her, the American side has repeatedly warned that Moscow’s response “will have a very solid base of development”
At the end of last year Washington decided within 72 hours 35 to expel Russian diplomats, as well as close access to the residential Embassy complexes in Maryland and in new York city. This step they called “response to harassment of American diplomats in Moscow”.