Russia decided to expel Japanese and Norwegian diplomats

On April 27, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that it would expel eight Japanese diplomats. The notice from the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that the Ministry had summoned the Japanese Ambassador and noted 8 expelled diplomat must leave Russia by May 10 at the latest.

At the beginning of this April, Tokyo expelled eight Russian diplomats to express its response Special military operation in Ukraine of Moscow.

On the same day, the Russian Foreign Ministry also announced the decision to expel three Norwegian diplomats from the Norwegian Embassy in Moscow.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Norwegian Ambassador Rune Resaland to express his objection regarding the decision of the Oslo government to expel the employees of the Russian Embassy in Norway, as well as the Norwegian government’s provision of assistance. military aid to Kiev.

Earlier, at the end of March, Russia announced the expulsion of an unspecified number of US diplomats in response to the US move after it expelled 12 staff members of the Russian mission to the United Nations.

US Embassy in Moscow. (Image: Getty Images)

In a statement on March 23, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that it had summoned a senior diplomat of the US diplomatic mission in Moscow and handed him a note containing a list of staff members. American diplomats expelled. These people are considered unwelcome characters.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the move was a retaliation for the incident expel diplomats Russia from the United Nations mission in New York and a Russian staff member from the United Nations Secretariat.

The US informed Russia of its decision to expel 12 Russian diplomats at the end of February. The US claimed that the expelled Russians engaged in espionage activities harmful to US national security.

Russia condemned the decision at the time, blaming the US for a serious breach of its commitments and calling on it to act rationally and avoid further escalation. The Russian Foreign Ministry later said that it did not want to expel American diplomats again but was forced to do so because the United States was unwilling and unable to negotiate.

A week earlier, the US also ordered the expulsion of the second senior diplomat at the Russian Embassy in Washington, Mr. Sergey Trepelkov. At the end of 2021, the US asked 27 Russian diplomats to leave the country. Before that, about 200 Russian diplomats worked in the US.

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