Moscow Pledges To Respond To Prague's Decision To Expel Diplomats - Intelligence Chief
Faizan Hashmi Published June 06, 2020 | 05:15 PM
The Czech Republic's decision to expel Russian diplomats is a mean provocation, and Moscow will surely respond in a due manner, Russia's Foreign Intelligence chief, Sergey Naryshkin, said on Saturday
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 06th June, 2020) The Czech Republic's decision to expel Russian diplomats is a mean provocation, and Moscow will surely respond in a due manner, Russia's Foreign Intelligence chief, Sergey Naryshkin, said on Saturday.
On Friday, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis announced that two Russian diplomats were declared personae non-gratae in the country. Babis explained that the decision was connected with claims and a Russian official allegedly brought ricin poison to the country for assassinating officials involved in the dismantlement of a monument to a Soviet marshal in Prague.
Moscow has denied the claims.
"There will be retaliatory response. But overall, of course, this is a very vile and mean provocation by the Czech authorities," Naryshkin told reporters.
Rossotrudnichestvo, the Russian foreign cooperation agency, has confirmed to Sputnik that the two expelled diplomats were its employees, and one of them was the acting head of the agency's regional office. The Russian embassy in Prague also called the expulsion a provocation.
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