Moscow hopes that the implementation of Washington’s international obligations in the matter of the Russian diplomatic property in the United States. This was stated by Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov after negotiations with the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini, RIA Novosti reported.
“As for the question about the Russian diplomatic property in the United States, we see this situation and still hope that the United States as a country that has always advocated the rule of law, will respect its international obligations. Otherwise, under the laws of diplomacy we will have to take retaliatory measures,” he said.
Earlier media reported about the plans of Moscow to send 30 American diplomats and the seizure of many properties of the USA in Russia. On such measures, the foreign Ministry is ready to go after Washington’s decision not to return belonging to the Russian dipvedomstva property in the United States, which in December 2016 seized.
At the end of last year Washington decided within 72 hours 35 to expel Russian diplomats and close the Embassy have access to residential complexes in Maryland and in new York city. This step they called “response to harassment of American diplomats in Moscow”.