Russia is ready to expel American diplomats
Moscow determined the mirror measures against Washington.
Moscow could take extreme measures in the issue of withdrawn in the US, Russian departmenti. As told “Izvestia” a source in the Russian foreign Ministry, as a reflex action it is planned to send about 30 American diplomats and to seize the objects of the American property in Russia. To such measures, the Russian side has pushed Washington’s decision not to return to the Embassy property, which is under arrest since December last year. Failed to resolve this issue at the talks Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald trump in Hamburg.
That Washington has no intention to lift the seizure of diplomatic property of Russia on the territory of the United States, “Izvestia” was told in the end of last week, a senior source on the Smolensk square. After the recent talks between the two leaders at the G20 summit, where the theme of departmenst were raised, it became clear that the United States did not plan to resolve the crisis. The decision of the United States, according to the source, forcing Russia to meet the mirror — to send about 30 workers in Russia, American diplomats and to impose retaliatory sanctions against the property of the USA in Russia.
While in Moscow, noted that I would not like to take such measures, but leave unanswered the hostile actions of Washington can’t either.
— 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 source “Izvestia” in the Ministry of foreign Affairs.
Earlier, another source of “Izvestiya” in Russian diplomatic circles said that as a reflex action under arrest can get belonging to the US dacha in Serebryany Bor, and a warehouse in Moscow, then as the residence of the Ambassador of the United States “Spaso house” and the Embassy of the Anglo-American school in St. Petersburg will not touch.
The Deputy head of the Federation Council Committee on international Affairs Andrei Klimov told “Izvestiya” that Russia and so waited six months for the settlement of the new United States administration diplomatic crisis, realizing that “it was the desire of Obama to ruin the beginning of the presidency of the trump.”
But, unfortunately, in six months, trump either could not, or did not consider it important to correct the situation. And now we have to draw the line and meet the mirror. This is our demonstration of the negative attitude to the administration of the trump, this is just evidence that Russia is a respectable power, you have to show respect. Thus it is necessary to adhere to Protocol, etiquette and international standards — any other way of communication with Russia can not be, — concluded the Senator.
The decision on the seizure of two owned by Russia’s diplomatic garden in new York and Washington and 35 expulsion of Russian diplomats was taken at the end of last year, former U.S. President Barack Obama. The official occasion was the prosecution alleged interference of Moscow in the course of American elections.
The expulsion of diplomats and the arrest of property was widely seen as the desire of the outgoing President to complicate his unwelcome successor, any attempt to establish a dialogue with Moscow. In fact, on the basis of the accepted in the international diplomacy of the principle of specular response, Russia had to respond to the expulsion of the same number of American diplomats and the arrest of American property. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia would not “stoop to the level of “cooking” diplomacy and won’t send Americans.
This decision, according to analysts, was not without calculation that the administration of Donald trump overturned the decision on a property and the expulsion of diplomats. In mid-may in the footsteps of the meeting in Washington of Russian foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with President of the trump in the media appeared information that the American side is ready to meet Russia and to cancel the arrest on diplomatic property. Moscow was almost certain that the White house just waits for the right moment to announce this decision with minimal image loss to themselves.
However, this did not happen. Moreover, according to The Washington Post, the administration of the trump in June and even studied the possibility of withdrawing diplomatic immunity from the ownership of Russia. According to the statements of anonymous officials to the American media, the White house was considered and the idea of linking the issue of Russian property with the resumption of Russian adoptions by American couples of Russian orphans (the ban was imposed by Moscow about four years ago).
Final confirmation counter the American political establishment to any attempts to peacefully resolve the issue of Russian property in the United States was a letter to the three members of the foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate calling on the President of Russia not to return the seized property. The letter was sent to President Trump on Thursday night, on the eve of his meeting in Hamburg with the Russian leader.